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booklady7 · 3 years ago

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HOUSE OF SKY AND BREATH! WOW! God, this book. I need to talk about it. And this ending? Oh GOD! I’m still shook!

I mean, after ToG and ACOTAR, we new Crescent City would be excellent, but this book kind of blew my mind. I wasn’t expecting this kind of plot, those intrigues and twists. I wasn’t ready! And I was so f*cking shocked about a lot!

When I started reading I was a little underwhelmed and thought that the plot was a little slow, but then, things started to take form and shit started to happen, and I couldn’t put the book down! Of course, as the book progressed the story just got more and more interesting, exciting, tense and wow, so AMAZING!

Let’s talk about things:

- Bryce and Hunt are mates! Yes, finally, they are everything!

- I didn’t love the whole “let’s find Emile” thing, but I think it was interesting the things they ended up finding out (like about the second light and everything about the resistance) in the process of looking for him. How his arc ended was cute.

- Cormac! I was so pissed when he showed up with that marriage talk, and I was like, oh God, another obstacle for Bryce and Hunt, and the type I don’t think is remotely cool. But then we find out he is in the resistance, and I was like, WOW WHAT AN AMAZING PLOT TWIST! I really loved it. I was ready to hate the guy, and I was pleasantly surprised that instead, I loved him!

- Ruhn! I’m obsessed with him! I already loved him so much from the first book, and this book only cemented that even more. Him lending his ability to the resistance and being all rebellious and fuck you Dad was really amazing.

- Agent Daybright… HOLY MOLLY! I think this storyline was my favorite of this book! I’m so here for it! I can’t even express how shocked I was after discovering it was Lidia! Like, man, such a powerful surprise, because of her position, reputation and everything it represents for the story. I hope she gets to hurt and/or kill Pollux really soon! (I’m a bit bloodthirst here, sorry, but like, how can you not be when talking about Sandriel ex triarii?) And she and Ruhn? Oh yeah, that’s my couple! I’m only surviving that ending because she is close to Ruhn and Hunt, it’s my hope that she can help them somehow!

- I love Hypaxia, she’s such a smart woman and a lovely character. I’m expecting so much from her in the next book. Specially because of Celestina hand in the shit show at the end.

- I never trusted Celestina very much. Something about her was so off for me. And maybe she redimes herself, but if not, good riddance!

- I thought is was really cool the Princes of Hell part in the book. How cool is to have Hell as an ally and not a enemy for a change?! I loved it, and knowing they kicked the Asteri out! You go Hell!! And honestly, I think Hunt is the son of some powerful Hell dude!

- What to say about Baxian? Jesus, I loved everything about his storyline. Him helping Hunt and him being Danika’s mate, wow! That was unexpected, but very cool! I look forward to having him as an ally in the next book!

- I love Ithan so much! I’m so glad he was kicked out of Sabine’s pack and is free from her, because he deserves so much more! And I loved that he moved in with Ruhn, Flynn and Emmet! And him and the mystic arc have so much promise for the next book! I can’t wait for Sabine to suffer, because I’m very sure she has everything to do with the mystic being a slave!

Now about that INSANE ending:

What an idiotic idea to go to the Asteri place! It had disaster written all over, of course. Everybody knew shit was gonna go down really bad, but like, not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine that kind of a shitshow! I understand that it was vital to get the information that Sofie -kind of, maybe?- died for, but man, they could have made a better plan than that!

1- The Asteri are disgusting and horrible beings, they’ve been destroying and slaving planets for so long! God, I got so pissed learning that! I hope the ending for them is compatible with everything they deserve!

2- Oh, God! Ruhn and Hunt being in the Asteri hands after what they done is so so bad! I hope that between that and the next book, Sarah don’t do something like, make them forget who they are or get so broken because of torture or something like this (or even worst, kill one of them)! Watching Hunt getting the tattoo again was painful enough already! I can’t handle them suffering like that or even thinking what those disgusting Asteri parasites can do to them! And really scares me how Bryce will find them when she gets back!

There’s a small saving grace here that Flynn and Emmet kind of know where they are and what happened, but still, it’s going to be a battle.

3- AND THE MOST IMPORTANT PART: BRYCE LANDING IN VELARIS! Like, OH MY GOD! Is this really happening? Is this real life? Am I reading correctly? I was so socked, I almost cried! I was very confused either. Like, are there the original planet where the people of Midgard came from? How Bryce describes Rhys looking so like Ruhn is so very interesting! I think we are going to find out a lot about Amren, finally! And God, Rhys and everybody else helping Bryce is going to be soooooo amazing! I missed them very much 💙

We’re going to find out so many interesting things on the next book! I can’t wait to read more, like so much more! When’s the next book out?! Does anyone have any idea?

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angeltrapz · 3 years ago

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Chainshipping ask!! Chainshipping ask!! hello beloved mutual Connor 💚💚 Just cuz idk I love couple shit, what do u think is their favorite movie to watch together? bc I think they have very different genre tastes so what is th one that just hits So Right for them both, their go-to for date nights where they can’t decide on smthn — also, bc i LOVE th idea in any situation of there bein a cork board that Adam pins his photos on: Adam’s top 3-5 fav photos that he’s put up on the board? Lawrence’s top 3-5? who’s in them, what’s the story behind them, etc!

hello beloved mutual adam!! tysm <3

ohh I've given that a lil bit of thought actually!! I agree that they have very very different genre tastes, like some of the shit Adam is perfectly fine w watching Lawrence couldn't ever sit through (I don't know that Adam likes, you know... Super Fucked Up Movies? I def think he doesn't mind certain aspects of horror/gore as much as Lar might though), and the same can be said vice versa. so because I am a simple man w simple joys, I actually do like to think it's The Princess Bride,,, (no it's not bc Cary's in it, but that's a plus) it's a movie that would've come out when Adam was pretty young but (since I like projecting??) it was smth that was on a lot after it came out, and I don't think he'd outwardly TELL ppl this, but it's a very good movie to watch when he's upset/tired/needs background noise. he could probably recite certain parts of it at this point but don't ask him abt it jdfkddfs

I think the first time Adam suggests that movie Lawrence looks at him for a moment and is like "really???" bc I firmly believe he would be really fond of it too!! he watches it every so often with Diana bc she really enjoys it and Lar can't say he doesn't enjoy it too,, he'll like try to get some work done while it's on (he and Diana will sit in the living room), but inevitably it'll get pushed to the side bc Lawrence gets caught up in watching it, no matter how many times they've seen it. so when Adam brings that up he's just like "!!!!!" internally!! he's so excited abt it + Adam can definitely tell, so the whole time he's just like "oh... I love you 💞💖💕"

I like the idea that they specifically have like, certain traditions when they decide to watch it, so like. they've got the comfiest blanket out on the couch, probably some sort of takeout or delivery if Lawrence hadn't made something for dinner himself, hot chocolate made with milk the way Adam likes it - sometimes they bake chocolate chip cookies together too!! just a nice evening to relax and enjoy each other’s company + a movie they’re both pretty fond of!! it usually ends with Adam’s head on Lawrence’s shoulder, his legs in Lawrence’s lap, sound asleep. sometimes Lawrence will drift off too for a little while, but once he wakes up he makes sure to wake Adam up too so they can go to bed properly (Lawrence will never admit to this, but sometimes if Adam whines and asks for five more minutes, well, Lawrence doesn’t have the heart to deny him,,)

+ YEAH I love the cork board idea too!!! I like the idea that Lawrence is the first to suggest it, ‘cause “Adam, you are far more talented than you give yourself credit for; also I love you.” bc Adam is 100% the kind of dude that takes pictures of his partners/friends/family CONSTANTLY. and even beyond that, Lawrence has always thought Adam was talented!! so it breaks his heart a little sometimes to hear that Adam isn’t confident in his skills/feels nervous sharing any shots with people. he figures if they have a cork board specifically for pinning up photos they like/Adam is proud of, maybe that will help a little bit to show Adam how much he loves his photography + how impressed Lawrence is with it!!

so, for Adam’s top three favourite shots:

the first is a photo of Lawrence in bed, having just woken up + with the early morning sun framing him in a gentle wash of light that makes his eyelashes bright and evident, along with softening the features of his face. Adam was already awake before Lawrence (though admittedly not for very long), and he was just overcome with the feeling of I Need To Document This. he stubbed his toe when getting out of bed to retrieve his camera, but it was totally worth it.

the second is actually one Lawrence took of him, and he totally teared up the first time he saw it but he’d never tell you that. it’s a picture of him leaning against the counter in their kitchen, wearing only his boxers and one of Lawrence’s t-shirts that hung off of one shoulder, and his eyes are closed while he’s holding a cup of coffee he’d just poured. his hair was a disaster, he was a little bit grouchy, he’d had trouble with the toaster, but Lawrence saw him and instantly felt like he needed to keep that moment.

the third is actually one of he, Lawrence, and Diana; it was taken using the self-timer feature so Adam could be in it too, because Diana wanted to have a picture of all three of them. this is the picture that actually DID make him cry the first time he saw it, because it’s just like. that’s his family!!! he loves them!!! holy shit!!! and Lawrence had to hug him for a while even though he was Also having a moment,, Diana walked up to the two of them and hugged them both too. it was a good moment for the three of them!!

for Lawrence’s top three favourite shots:

the first is one of he and Diana that Adam took one weekend while Diana was staying with them at the apartment, stealthily shot from the threshold of the kitchen. Diana is painting his nails light blue and telling him all about her day at school, and Lawrence is smiling and his mouth is open because he was in the middle of responding to something she had said. the faint glow of light from the TV and the lamps they have on the side tables paint he and Diana in a warm kind of light, and it just looks so soft. he’s so very happy with the family he has now.

the second photo is one that Adam had gotten when he was in the midst of changing into his sleep clothes, sandy blond hair a mess and his eyes half-lidded and sleepy as he glances in the direction of the camera with a tired smile. he’s actually grinning at Adam behind the viewfinder, slacks halfway down his thighs and his dress shirt unbuttoned to expose the undershirt beneath. he was tired as fuck and kind of a mess after pulling a long shift that Adam just barely stayed up for, so knowing Adam was probably worn out from waiting up for him and Still wanted to take a picture? it’s very much just 🥺🥺

the third picture is one that he took of Adam, wearing one of his college sweatshirts on the couch with his knees drawn up under his chin and his cheek resting against the tops of them. he was deeply focused on the movie that was playing (what the movie was, Lawrence forgets) and he was that soft kind of sleepy, eyes slipping shut every so often as he forces himself to stay awake to finish whatever it was. Lawrence had gotten it one of the times his eyes were open, bathed in the multicoloured lights of the TV, and god Lawrence just felt his heart clench and knew he needed this.

honestly, it’s pretty equal between the two of them on who takes pictures of the other, and though Lawrence is inexperienced and his shots are a little blurry or he forgets to keep his thumb out of the frame, it’s still perfect. Adam always feels his chest swell with this emotion of you love me enough to capture these moments forever, and honestly? Lawrence’s enthusiasm kind of builds up his confidence a little; that he sees Adam even with the wildest of bedhead and drool on his pillow and thinks Yes, I Need This. it’s so. 🥺

it’s their life, pinned up for anyone to see when they come to visit. the love that warms the apartment and their hearts, as evidenced by the numerous array of pictures they have displayed. it’s them, their family, their love, and that’s all that matters. <33

#saw #adam #lawrence #asks #typing style changes happen regularly over here kdjflkasjfsa #every once in a while my brain is like. don't type tht way. type almost every word out. so tht's why this is different kinda dkjfkds #anyway. tysm I love getting asks frm you!!! I was so happy to see this in my inbox!!#shit has been difficult lately so I'm always happy 2 get asks <3 #also the idea tht lawrence takes pics of adam too!!! it makes me so kjfhakjsa!!! like he doesn't rly know what he's doing #but he loves adam so much that he is still going to try damn it!!!

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carrotmakar · 4 years ago

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Welcome to new york - okay this song is a bop!!!!! Like i’ve literally replayed it like four times and that’s why i’m STILL listening to it even though i started listening to the album almost 20 minutes ago <33 someone help me!!! But like actually don’t, because i absolutely love this song!!

Blank space - fun fact, i screamed this song while decorating my christmas tree years ago with some of my old best friends <33 it’s really upbeat and catchy and i was OBSESSED with it when it was on the radio. I stopped listening to it for a long time, but i actually started listening to it recently!!! It’s a really good song and it’s one of those that i’ll probably always dance to if i have the chance!!

Style* - ahahahahahahahaha haylor time <3333 okay all the songs that i’ve been told are about harry i’m going to put a * by so that i know, just to let everyone know why the heck half the album has a * next to it <333 okay i listen to this song like… every day while i’m cleaning so um!! That should tell you something!!! I literally love this song!!!! It will also be one that i’ll forever be dancing to <333 like literally how could i not love this????

Out of the woods* - alrightyyyyy more haylor right awayyyy <333 okay i’m gonna be honest the very FIRST time i ever heard this song, i absolutely couldn’t stand it because of the repetition. But now that i actually listen to more music than just what’s on the radio, i really like it. It’s a really good song. It’s another one that i listen to more often than i probably should, but it’s literally such a good song that i can’t help it. Ahahahahaha this is part of the vehicular manslaughter theory isn’t itttttt. The 20 stitches in a hospital room. Yeahhhh i remember that.

All you had to do was stay* - okay even more haylor apparently!!!! Oh yeah i can see how this could be about harry. It’s a really good song, too. I like how the ‘stay’ does what it does. Okay look, so far, this entire album is full of bops and i could literally dance to all of them. Like this is so great i can’t even… just yeah!!! I’m loving it so far.

Shake it off - ohhhh this song was THE song for so long!! Like everyone sang this!! This was played at school functions!!! It’s really good and luckily i haven’t heard it in FOREVER because at some point it got so overplayed that i couldn’t listen to it anymore fkdjhsak. But it’s a really good song skjdhgksj!!!

I wish you would* - hahahahahah haylor <333 okay this is the first song on the album that i’ve never heard so yeah!! Oh i can definitely see how this is about haylor. Like the interviews where she said that she just wished that he would have shown up at her house? This song hit me like a fucking truck like… holy shit this song is so good. And like i didn’t even know that i CARED about haylor fr but like… my heart just kinda… dropped a bit when i heard the lyrics haha. It’s a really good song though. Like i really like it, it just kinda hurts for ABSOLUTELY NO REASONABLE REASON. LIKE WHAT THE FUCK WHY DOES IT HURT????

Bad blood - ohhhhh i really like this song!! This was another one that was big when it was released as a single. And it’s soooo good. Like i literally STILL scream this song when i’m mad at someone. Like… that’s just how it is sometimes haha. Like literally the other day i was screaming this on the highway because i was hurt so yeah <33 i still listen to this song a lot.

Wildest dreams* (maybe) - okay dude i am absolutely WHIPPED for this song. Like i used to listen to this song EVERY DAY as i waited for the bus. This song was my choice song for my audition for an a cappella group. Like this son was IT for me. And like lowkey it still is. I literally am so in love with this song.

How you get the girl* - haylor <3 okay yet another one i haven’t heard! Hopefully this one doesn’t hurt as bad <3 okay so apparently i lied <3 i’ve heard this song, or at least parts of it. But like i can also see how this could be about h. These all make so much sense and i just- yeah. Okay i like this song. It’s really upbeat and very vibey. That’s how you lost the girl fkjdshafkjhskdj taylor fkdsjahfkjsdh anywho!! Yeah!! It’s really good!!

This love* - haylor <3333 okayyyy i really don’t think that i’ve heard this one!! Oh this is… slow… is it going to make me sad?? Oh silent screams… that’s… rough… Okay listen i don't know if i find it sad or not but it’s not… happy per se. I do like it though <3

I know places* - haylor <333 okay i like the vibe that i’m getting <33 it’s very nice <33 and like… a little dark if that makes sense? I really like it though <3 in the dead of night, your eyes so green <33 harry <33

Clean* - okay so it’s the next day from ^^ all of those <3 and i um… i’’ve slept so hopefully this will make some sort of sense. Alright it’s like slow, soft, delicate almost. I really like it. It’s nice so far. Oh, the flowers are dying of thirst <3 oh yeah this makes sense when thinking about harry. Yeah, i can see it. <3 i have no FUCKING clue what i’m saying but i do really like the song <3 it’s really like… oh you’re still stuck to me even though you’re gone but maybe i’m finally clean <3 also ik this is part of the vehicular manslaughter thing too and like… yeah alright, we won’t even get into that <3

Wonderland* - alright it seems kinda magical tbh, like the music, the beat, all that good stuff. Oh it got faster. Oh no… not the green eyes being flashed </33 I HATE MYSELF WHY DO I SAY THINGS LIKE THAT <3 okay no this really is a good song. Oh that was a nice beat drop. THE THINGS THAT HER VOICE CAN DO OMG. okay anyway, yeahhhhh it’s a really good song. Also………… haylor is growing on me very much so and i think it’s because of this album, tiktok, and the people on tumblr that literally talk about haylor ALL THE TIME <3

You are in love - alrighty yeah this is a good song. It’s slower than others but it’s still really good. I like it a lot honestly. Okay no this is actually a really good song. Like she just… has a way with making songs so FUCKING good and i just… yeah. <333 this makes me wish that i was in love. True love. <3

New romantics - okay last song on the album, i’ve heard both good and bad things about this song so let’s see how it goes <3 um… this is a really good song. Like it’s vibey and then it gets faster and like… even better. Smh people on tiktok really be lying to me about which songs are bad huh. Okay no i really do like it, though. Like i understand why others might not like it, but i’m really feeling it so <3

#okay most likely the last one of the weekend!!!!!#i really liked it and the haylor ride was... nice <3 #i may have to... indulge i'm not sure <3 #zoey listens to taylor swift

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medea10 · 4 years ago

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My Review of Rinne

(a.k.a. Kyoukai no Rinne)

How did I get into this anime? Let’s just say the creator of this series, I’m a fan of. Rumiko Takahashi is the creator of this series as well as several other well-known anime series including Ranma ½, Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, and my personal favorite InuYasha. That alone was reason for me to get heavily interested from the get-go. But because of the time it came out, I had too much on my plate to pick up one more anime, so I put it on the back-burner for a few years. And despite the mediocre score and listless hype over this, I’m still interested to see what Rin-ne is all about.

As a child, Mamiya Sakura has been different from other children. When she was a child, Sakura ended up in the afterworld and returned to the world of the living after a day of wandering around. After that incident, she gained the ability to see ghosts/spirits. Fast-forward to the present where she’s a high school student and meets a Shinigami named Rinne Rokudou. Rinne is a half-human (which is rare in the afterworld) and works as a Shinigami like his parents and grandmother before him. He can be seen by regular humans, but if he wears a special cloak, he becomes invisible to everyone. This makes it easy to put spirits to rest without being seen by humans!

Both Rinne and Sakura are able to see what others cannot and this often helps Rinne when he takes on a mission. Throughout the series, Rinne ends up taking on random spirits every episode with a cute mascot that often helps him (Rokumon), a love rival (Tsubasa Jumonji), a girl who likes him (Ageha), and several other colorful characters in the human and afterworld. Check out the afterlife. Just be sure to bring your checkbook, nothing’s for free!

BETWEEN THE SUB AND THE DUB: Sentai Filmworks is the licensor of this series and by the looks of it, this series has already been released in video formats and has no dub to speak of. So I’m going to assume there will be no dub to this in the future. This is kind of a blessing to me! Because if I’m watching a Rumiko Takahashi series, I would highly prefer hearing the voice actors of Vancouver! That’s right, if this series doesn’t contain Richard Ian Cox, Kelly Sheridan, Brad Swaile, or Brian Drummond, the dub will be scum.

Okay, I admit that’s mean. I grew accustomed to the other Takahashi classics that if this got a dub, I would have flipped if I saw the Texas voice actors on this.

As for the sub…where oh where could Kappei Yamaguchi be? Oh where, oh where could he be? One way or another, we are going to hear him. And we do! BUT, he’s not a main character this time. That honor goes to Kaito Ishikawa. Everything in the last three years has gone to this guy. And who am I to complain? I friggin’ love him in nearly everything he’s in. Yeah, this series does have a lot of familiar voices, including several that have been memorable characters in Takahashi’s other series. Kappei Yamaguchi (who is well known for InuYasha and Ranma) is featured as well as Satsuki Yukino (well known for Kagome on InuYasha) Here’s what you might recognize these folks from.

*Rinne is played by (known for Kiawe on Pokemon SM, Genos on One Punch Man, Mitsuo on Golden Time, Urie on Tokyo Ghoul :re, Sakakibara on Assassination Classroom, and Naofumi on Shield Hero)

*Sakura is played by Marina Inoue (known for Sonia on Pokemon Journeys, Armin on Attack on Titan, Yoko on Gurren Lagann, Jessica on Umineko, Kyouko on Skip Beat, Wataru on Hayate, and Rei on H.O.T.D.)

*Rokumon is played by Hitomi Nabatame (known for Serena’s Mother on Pokemon XY, Yukiji on Hayate, Margery Daw on Shakugan no Shana, Saori on Oreimo, Nanao on Bleach, and Raynare on High School DxD)

FAVORITE CHARACTER: I have a guilty pleasure for Kain’s cat, Suzu. She’s just so care-free that she fucks up at least 98% of the time she’s shown on this show. And I gotta admit that she makes me laugh whenever she’s on the screen.

DISLIKED CHARACTER: You would think I would pick that snot-nosed brat (Shouma) introduced in season two for this list. Or Kain for that matter! Both of these boys annoy the living fuck out of me whenever they’re in an episode. But then Rinne’s father peaks his douchey head in.

Oh wow, horrible parent alert! Sabato Rokudou is Rinne’s father and holy shit what a bloody scumbag. He’s on the same tier as the parents from Hayate the Combat Butler. Yeah, that bad! As we all know, the after-world is a capitalist society and everything has a price. This guy has been stealing his own son’s money since he was a little boy. Add to that, Sabato fills his son with false promises (including meeting his own mother). Even in his current age, Sabato finds ways to steal money from his son when he’s trying to earn means while living in the world of the living. Even putting him in a million yen in debt! And just causing life to be miserable for Rinne whenever he comes by! Tamako, how could you birth such an inconsiderate bastard into being?

Nice to see my prediction from when I wrote my Worst Father’s of Anime list over a year ago came true. Sabato remained a dick-head throughout all three seasons. Amazing! I guess the only nice thing about him is that he’s not going to be in a relationship with Ichigo while she’s still a child.

SHIPPING: So Kyokai no Rinne is following the same protocol as a lot of Rumiko Takahashi’s other animes. So we have the male and female main protagonist that’s going to be the main ship (even though it seems more friend-zoned most of the time). There will be a reoccurring girl character to cause friction between this main ship because she loves the male protagonist. And we have to add several boys after the main female’s heart too.

And just for good measure, let’s add a boy interested in the male lead and a couple of secondary ships that may or may not happen.

Hey, InuYasha and Ranma ½ had the same setup. Rinne is just following suit!

Rinne x Sakura has pretty much setting sail since the end of season two even without a full-on confession from either one of them. Rinne has had feelings for Sakura since season one. Sakura on the other hand, I can’t get a grip on what she wants in terms of a romantic partner. I want to say she’s oblivious to the advances of Jumonji or Ageha’s jealousy, but on the other hand, I feel like Sakura just doesn’t care what happens romantic wise. But the fact that she’s constantly helping Rinne might be a big, fat clue.

Rinne x Ageha is that one-sided ship that you know is never gonna happen (along with Sakura x Jumonji), but it doesn’t stop die-hard shippers from supporting it until their final breaths. I am actually impressed that Ageha doesn’t hold a grudge against Rinne because his father kinda brain-washed Ageha’s sister into giving Sabato money all the time. Several other characters hate Rinne for that alone, yet Ageha is still devoted to loving Rinne.

I do wonder that once Rinne x Sakura are a sure-thing if Jumonji and Ageha are going to hook up.

Rinne x Matsugo was one of the wildest ships I could have imagined. First of all, Matsugo’s debut episode came with a hint of love-hate. But by the end, Matsugo went from hating Rinne over a misunderstanding to going all “Bros before Hoes” on us! After that Matsugo stopped at nothing to get Rinne. Even blowing off the one girl that actually likes this obsessed freak!

Kain x Renge is actually the one ship that doesn’t revolve around Rinne because both Kain and Renge hate Rinne’s guts. Renge likes Kain, but also has to hide some pretty heinous things from him like working for Rinne’s father as a Damashi-shinigami. And as we all know, Kain has a vendetta against Sabato, his family, and anyone affiliated with Damashis due to his own family situation. Kain unfortunately sees Renge as an ally or a friend. He wants her to continue her studies since Kain can’t go to school. Dude ain’t got time for a side-chick! He’s gotta work for a living because his mother gives all their money away to Sabato.

That guy seriously grinds my gears.

RUMIC WORLD EASTER EGGS: Rumiko Takahashi has been around for quite some time and many of her creations have become quite well-known. That’s why when Rinne came in anime form, fans took to the forums to gab about how Ageha is the spitting image of a one-shot villain from InuYasha or that Sakura’s mother has a resemblance of Lum or that Jumonji looks like a modern-day Miroku (minus the perverted charm). Every now and then, we get a special little easter egg shown from Takahashi’s other works. Most notably, Lum shown on the currency and carnival prizes that have a lot of figures from Ranma ½!

My favorite easter egg was of course during a next episode preview where Sabato and Tamako (who are voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi and Satsuki Yukino) end up doing some dialogue that’s…

…You all know what this is…

END OF SEASON ONE: So the final episode, Sakura was able to have something she hasn’t been able to obtain in over 10 years. Three days of peace without having to be bugged by a spirit. As a reminder, Sakura as a child visited the other world and after that experience, she’s been able to see spirits. Tamao gave Sakura some candy to eat so that she would be like every other human around her and not see spirits every waking second.

This couldn’t have come at a worse time for Rinne as he had to take out over 5,000 spirits in the middle of an A-1 run. And because Sakura accidentally opened the barrier containing these spirits, they were trying to come after her. So Rinne had to get rid of all 5,000 (and lose money in the process with special tools). It took three days, but Rinne was able to do that. And because Rinne had his special coat on (where normal humans are unable to see him), Sakura wasn’t able to see him until the candy wore off. Even though Sakura got a whole bag of those candies, she hasn’t used them again.

At the end of the episode, Rinne and Sakura break the fourth wall by announcing that a second season was coming!

SEASON TWO: Oh thank you Jesus, the opening and ending themes aren’t bland bags of genericness like the previous season. Great improvement, especially when you get one of the best singers from Love Live to do the opening theme! Good on you!

Music ranting aside, this season we are introduced to a lot of new characters in the human and spirit world that are going to be seen more often than not. Starting things off, apparently Ageha has a cat employee (much like the relationship between Rinne and Rokumon). Except Ageha and Obero’s relationship is a lot more dysfunctional. Kain also has a cat employee named Suzu. She’s more spazzy compared to Kain’s serious demeanor. Actually, there are several cat characters introduced this series and even a few episodes dedicated to them later on.

One more thing I should mention about this particular season is that we got to see Sakura have a little more growth here. For a while I found her too plain for my taste, but this season we see her become a Shinigami (for a day) and we even get possible love interest with the finale. Now let’s head over to that part.

END OF SEASON TWO: The final two episodes consisted of Rinne being invited to a high school mixer in the Afterworld by a former friend, Matsugo. The thing is Matsugo used to hold a vendetta against Rinne due to a misunderstanding from their childhood. But unlike every other misunderstanding from this series, this one was resolved within an episode or two and Matsugo’s buddies with Rinne again. Actually, Matsugo’s feelings are teetering from childhood friend to full-blown bromance.

How do you get rid of a nuisance who can’t take a hint? Bring Sakura with you to the mixer and have her pretend to be your girlfriend! The big problem here is that Rinne is putting food and money over Sakura. And if you were in Rinne’s shoes, you can see that these two are more important than a girl. Rinne is poor as fuck! If he gets a chance at winning some money or food, absolutely fuck everything else! Unfortunately, Sakura caught wind of all of these ulterior motives and started to question her own relationship with Rinne. And I gotta hand it to Sakura, because if this were an old-school Rumiko Takahashi female protagonist like Akane or Kagome, Rinne would have been destroyed in a matter of seconds. Sakura doesn’t cuss him out or show a resting bitch-face. Actually, she never does! But by the end of this two-parter, Rinne realized that Sakura is pretty important to her, maybe even more than other things.

At the end of the episode, Rinne and Sakura break the fourth wall again by announcing that a third season was coming!

SEASON THREE: Much like the previous season, we’re continuously introduced to new characters that serve some sort of purpose, a new love triangle involving the main or supporting cast, and 2-3 filler stories an episode. However, in the mid-point, we get introduced to 2 new characters that answer some questions that have plagued many of us since the beginning.

You know how nearly every male protagonist of Rumiko Takahashi has a missing mother? Whether it be due to premature demise or she’s a crazy-bitch like in Ranma ½, the mother figure is usually M.I.A. Otome was Rinne’s mother, but she disappeared when he was a baby. Only now, her scythe returns suddenly. Add to that, a mysterious little girl named Ichigo moves into the area (and just like Sakura, she can see spirits).

Long story short, Ichigo is the reincarnation of Otome (Rinne’s mother). I can get over this whole Kikyo/Kagome crap because this is a Rumiko classic. But I just feel ewwie whenever I see Ichigo and Sabato. Thankfully Sabato has no intention of doing anything creepy to Ichigo. He has some standards, so he gets a point with me there. The reason why Otome disappeared was because she wanted to hide her old yearbooks from Sabato, which lead to her being caught up in a stampede of wild animals that lead her to the wheel of reincarnation. And the reason why she was trying to hide these old yearbooks was because she didn’t want Sabato to know the ugly truth.

That she is really two years younger…than her mother-in-law.

Dude…I know Tamako looks extremely young to even be a grandmother…but damn, Otome goes to these lengths to lie about her age.

ENDING: We don’t really get any kind of monumental moment or climax until the very final episode since all of the episodes between Ichigo’s reveal and the finale were mostly just side-stories involving spirits/demons of the day. The final episode had Rinne, Sakura, Renge, and Jumonji taking part of a school festival at Matsugo’s school. But it mostly takes place in a test of courage cave. Apparently this feature is notorious for causing many couples to break up and people can’t turn around otherwise they’re disqualified. But if you make it all the way through, free food! And you know Rinne is not going to turn down a chance to get free food.

But we get another moment much like the end of season two where Rinne has to choose between food and/or money or Sakura. Actually, Rinne ended up choosing Sakura. And unlike a bunch of other pissed off couples, Rinne and Sakura’s relationship (or lack there of) is doing pretty well.

So we end with no love confessions on any front, no happy ending for Rinne in hitting a Shinigami lottery or some crap like that, and no hope in a fourth season.

*sighs*

This was…just an okay anime. I can see why people just think this is okay or mediocre. With me, there were several things that bugged. First of all, I found several things in the anime that felt very inconsistent. Especially when it came to the spirits plaguing the human world! There are some scenes where something out of the ordinary happens and it plays out like you would expect like people freaking out. But then you get these moments where, okay, why are regular humans seeing this? The annoying narrator likes to point out the obvious in literally every episode. Why, didn’t we establish the obvious earlier?

Speaking of the narrator, could you be any more annoying?! How many times are you going to remind us of things in the series? I know there are useful moments with the narrator like when he’s describing all the different items Rinne and other Shinigami use to put a soul to rest. But then there’s this repetitive nature to the narrator where he constantly reminds you of shit you’ve known since episode 1. It’s useful when you want to remind the audience at the beginning of each season, but not every couple of episodes. WE ALL KNOW RINNE CAN’T BE SEEN BY HUMANS IF HE’S WEARING HIS CLOAK! SHUT UP ALREADY!

I’m not sure if the anime covered everything in the manga as I have not picked up the books…yet. I’m sure the manga has gotten a little further with many of these potential ships like Rinne x Sakura to hope that maybe one day we’ll get something from them. I’ve spent a good year and a half trying to grasp at what I really think of Sakura Mamiya. First of all, she’s a huge improvement in the main female role. When you compare her to the other girls from Takahashi’s works like Kagome or Akane (who eat Carnation Instant Bitch every morning), Sakura is quite pleasant.

But then you see Sakura showing no other emotion besides satisfied, meh, and let me put on my surprise face. She hardly ever gets mad. I’m not saying go on a rampage like Kagome when she yells at InuYasha, but for fuck’s sake, tell Rinne off every now and then. Christ-balls, he’s put food and money over you so many times you’ve earned a few yells. And he constantly borrows money from you and you know he’ll never pay you back!

The story is mostly the spirit of the day trope. In later seasons however, we get two or three mini stories an episode dealing with some sort of spirit with no personal growth involving any of the main characters. Rinne gets ahead during the episode, but gets smacked back to where he began and we repeat the same thing in the next episode. So yeah, it got boring when we’re stuck in a slump like that. I even had high hopes in season two when we got that one episode where Sakura was a Shinigami for the day. I thought Sakura was going to evolve a little bit after that, but alas that was not the case. We go right back to the spirit(s) of the day trope!

But I always felt drawn back with several of the colorful characters. I always enjoy Rinne’s grandmother, Tamako. Kain’s cat, Suzu is the silliest thing ever and I love her dearly. Masato will always suck and it’s a joy to watch him fail at everything. And call me a sucker for boys fighting over the girl, but whenever I see Rinne and Jumonji get jealous at each other, I enjoy it. Not on levels like Inuyasha and Koga, but good enough here.

So, I would give it a couple of episodes to make your own decision if you want to drop it or continue watching Rinne.

In the meantime, I’m gonna wait patiently for that InuYasha sequel that’s coming out in October. Thank Arceus Rumiko Takahashi gave us something in 2020.

If you want to check out Rin-ne, all three seasons are available on Crunchyro…

Uh-oh! As of this date and time, Rin-ne is removed (along with 76 other titles) from Crunchyroll’s site. Glad I finished before they got rid of it! Just watch it on HI-DIVE.

Now then! That took a good 18 months to get through. Hopefully the next anime is a lot shorter than that one. What’s next on my Sentai block?

Suffering!

Huh? Does that mean Re:Zero? Or Akame ga Kill?

Nope.

Oh, Made in Abyss! But this looks cute and innocent, how could this possibly be…?! Almost had you all fooled! Looks can be deceiving. Yeah, this anime is gonna hurt.

#Kyoukai no Rinne #rinne #sabato rokudou #sakura mamiya #ageha #kain #renge #rinne rokudou #jumonji tsubasa #anime review #obero #suzu #rokumon

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novastarlyght · 6 years ago

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YO WHAT UP GAMERS I JUST HAD THE WILDEST DREAM ABOUT A HAT IN TIME

I dreamed the announcement of AHIT’s 2nd DLC, called either “The Eclipse Paradox” or “The Lunar Paradox” I can’t remember now ahsjdfjgjdh, got leaked because a voice actress (a specific voice actress who’s not even in AHIT funnily enough) posted footage from it on her youtube channel accidentally, the video was meant to be private or go up later than it actually did or something but yeah this confirmed the 2nd DLC and it caused so much hype that a major gaming news/industry youtuber was talking about it

and I actually got to see the leaked footage before the voice actress took it down and OH BOY.... it only showed like the very beginning but it starts with Hat Kid and a bunch of other characters on a lifeboat, indicating this takes place immediately after Arctic Cruise, but Snatcher is there even though the only time we see him in Arctic Cruise is when he’s in the crate in the first act

he also seems kind of depressed which is obviously unusual since the dude is literally always smiling otherwise so the other characters tell Hat Kid “go cheer him up!” ... so she goes up to Snatcher, hugs him and says “You’re my BFF and I love you so much!” and he’s just.... flabbergasted and almost starts to cry but after a second he hugs her back and it’s fucking adorable BUT THEN

SHIT GETS REAL

because the moon over the arctic waters starts shining and casting down these bright moonbeams and who shows up but fucking MOONJUMPER his design is a little different/updated but it’s close enough to his original concept that it’s like... impossible to deny that’s the goddamn Moonjumper holy shit they actually put him back in the game AND HE’S THE VILLAIN OF THE DLC because he then attacks Hat Kid, steals the couple time pieces she has on her and then just like Mustache Girl does right before Time’s End unlocks rewrites time... somehow with just a few time pieces even though Mussy needed at least 25 of them apparently but whatever. also for some reason Moony’s thing is that he speaks backwards so all his voice acting is reversed

so now suddenly HK and Snatcher are in the new rewritten timeline, in Subcon specifically but it’s like Subcon in the past, a happy enchanted fairy tale forest instead of the spooky haunted woods it is in the present. and that’s where the leaked footage ended. BUT WAIT

THERE’S MORE

so after this leak Gears for Breakfast were like “WELP cat’s out of the bag might as well announce it officially” and put up an actual trailer for the DLC that showed us even more gameplay footage and in it we see that Snatcher actually accompanies HK through the whole chapter, sort of like the Death Wish challenges except he’s actually there being a part of what’s going on rather than just being the “host” and he seems to give HK new abilities (via new contracts?) to overcome the obstacles in the stage with the main one the trailer showcasing being this shadow sword thing? it’s a sword but it’s got this dark purple shadowy aura... so it’s like SCREW THE PARASOL HAT KID’S GOT A FUCKING SWORD NOW

and then I woke up and checked youtube on my phone and was unbelievably disappointed to find out it was in fact just a dream

#BringBackMoonjumper2019

#nova's dream journal #a hat in time #gears for breakfast #ahit #the snatcher #snatcher #the moonjumper #moonjumper #hat kid #subcon forest

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lightsandlostbells · 6 years ago

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Skam NL episodes 4 and 5 reaction

This is incredibly late but there was no way I was not going to write about Engel’s detour into waxing hell.

Episode 4

Clip 1 - Piesiepoepselaar

Isa and Kes are lying together in the morning and it’s very serene. He’s had the same nightmare as Jonas did in the original, though I think the context is different … russ is like a thing that Jonas objects to on principle, would Kes be against just taking a city trip?

He’s like, “You took off your shirt and made out with everyone, boys and girls.” Lmao, I don’t think Isa is going to get that wild in Tallinn.

Isa replies that she’ll only take off her shirt for Kes. So this isn’t really a hint of an actual problem or any condescension on his part, they’ve re-purposed this exchange into some purely flirty interaction.

This cute moment is interrupted by Isa’s mom unexpectedly popping in. She calls her daughter “pissing pooper”? Hands down the best/worst nickname I have heard a parent call their child. And of course Kes loves it.

Clip 2 - Orgy preparation

Isa gets a call from “Pap” soooo her dad is still kind of in the picture?

Engel bounds up to Isa, she looks very happy to see her. And when Janna and Imaan come up, she also looks happy to see them. Engel is so cute.

Except LMAO, GOD. She addresses Imaan with “Salaam-Alaikum,” and seems a little proud of herself, as if she Googled “how to speak Muslim” over the weekend. So I guess instead of being an outright exclusionary racist, she’s going to be like … a well-intentioned white ally who goes too far and ends up othering her Muslim friend by not treating her the same as the non-Muslims? That’s a pretty interesting take. It certainly puts Engel in a better light than Vilde, since she is trying to be inclusive rather than rejecting Imaan, but it also explores Imaan’s struggle with having to deal with people treating her differently than her peers, or changing their behavior toward her since she’s a Muslim.

Imaan is just like “.... Hi.” I feel like at some point she’s going be like, “Look, you can just treat me like you’d treat anyone else.”

Janna starts coughing, and at first I thought she was trying to salvage the awkward moment, but she’s actually gesturing for Engel to look over yonder because GUESS WHAT, a certain dude is climbing the stairs.

Dutch William has a very long coat and seems more like an artsy edgy hipster kid, maybe, than a regular king-of-the-school fuckboy. His head is down so we don’t get a full view of his face, it’s like he’s ~mysterious and gives no fucks.

That blond dude from the party, Gijs, is part of Dutch William’s (Noah’s) crew, of course, and nods in recognition to Isa. They’re like, HOLY SHIT, Isa, what happened there?

Apparently one of them (Gijs or Noah) the wildest parties, with orgies. And not some weak-ass orgies where people sit in the hot tub together. Full-on power orgies with naked bodies. Janna sure knows her orgy classifications.

Engel’s facial expressions when Janna mentions orgies, lmao. This little frown.

The girls are like, “There’s a party this Friday,” and Isa’s like “...OK?” Imaan has to explain that Janna and Engel want Isa to flirt with the guy so they can get in to the party. She takes Isa’s phone and does her thing. Well, that’s interesting because Imaan doesn’t seem so invested personally in going to the party? I mean, there’s no real benefit to their city trip. Is she doing it because Janna and Engel want to? Like she wants to be in with these girls and have friends?

Janna is amused and laughs at Imaan’s liking all of Gijs’ pics. Engel just seems stunned. A Muslim did that???? Maybe she had Imaan all wrong. Maybe she needs to consult Google again.

Clip 3 - BUY YOUR OWN GODDAMN FRIES

Isa, Kes, and Lucas go out for food. Isa is the only one to order fries, and when she asks if they want fries, they’re like nahhhh. IMMEDIATELY my bullshit detector went off. They’re going to steal her fucking fries, aren’t they?

At one point the word “EVEN” is visible through the window, heh.

Lucas has injured his left hand, which I am assuming is a thing the actor did IRL and they had to explain it into the story. Kes roasts Lucas about his injury (which happened while skateboarding) and Lucas is like, “At least I take risks.” Yeah, some of those risks will apparently involve fucking up your friends’ relationship?

Kes asks Isa if they’re going to hang out at her place, I am assuming just the two of them, while Lucas gives Kes a long look. Actually, those are some high-quality Looks that Lucas has been serving to Kes. Make sure this show gets to season 3, okay? So he can put his pining face to good use.

Kes says the whole thing about Isa’s mom not knowing about him, and that Isa is ashamed of him, and Lucas is like, well, she’s right!

But of course Gijs is now sending her messages about Isa’s IG stalking. Just as Kes is offering to cook for her and her mom. Isa, let him cook for you! That’s more proactive than any Jonas has offered yet, right?

Gijs is turned on by Isa stalking him. You know, I’ve never just how many kinks the P-Chrises have, like he’s into nerds, being stalked, pretending to be the Eva’s dad/mom/whatever ... he’s just up for anything.

Lucas mentions that Isa has too many new friends, maybe even a new boyfriend, and THAT is some snake-ass shit, planting that seed out there. Even if he’s just talking shit and kidding. He doesn’t know he’ll be kinda right, but man, will Kes remember that when shit hits the fan? Kes seemed so indifferent though, like he’s all “lady friends” and not taking it seriously.

I WAS FUCKING RIGHT, THEY STEAL HER GODDAMN FRIES. Taking advantage of her distraction while messaging Gijs.

This is the realest shit though, like nothing Jonas and Isak said about Eva’s involvement in russ compared to this disrespect. Teenage boys are the WORST.

But yeah, there’s not nearly as much putting down of Isa’s friends or activities (since who is gonna be like “it’s so CAPITALISTIC that you want to take a fun trip to a city”?) apart from some passive-aggressiveness about Kes not meeting Isa’s mom and Isa being too popular. Still, it feels less mean, and Isa didn’t seem as attacked.

Clip 4 - The most important conversation I’ve ever heard

The title of this clip was “full bush baby” and I was like … is that really going to refer to what I think it is? Like either we are talking about a small primate, or someone’s private hedge maze.

I love Janna looking like a hot mess in every scene. Like she literally rolled out of her bed, which is an ostrich nest, and went to school. She’s telling a story about opening a beer in class while Engel looks bothered about something in the background.

OH MY GOD, Engel looks troubled not because of any angsty Noah pining or Imaan drama or any of what you’d expect, but because she shaved her pubic hair and it itches. WE STAN.

…. Is this taking the place of the birth control conversation??? Instead of Engel asking about birth control, she wants the girls to tell her how they remove their pubic hair?

I am not remotely surprised that Janna is a full bush baby.

Imaan saying she dyes hers red, white, and blue = MY LOVE.

Engel takes that completely seriously judging by her confused little face. Engel’s life is 90% confusion.

Janna says if she waxes, she can wax a lightning bolt. Please be a Harry Potter reference. (You know, I’m sure wizards have hair removal spells and all, but I’m imagining someone being like ACCIO PUBES and ripping out everything at once.)

Engel is nervous about waxing. Oh my God, instead of the nurse, are they going to go for a bikini wax together?????

Isa gets a text. Turns out they’re going to the party! Engel gets excited and starts throwing out outfit possibilities.S he rambles a bit and then Imaan does the “shhh, you talk too much” moment.

Now it feels a little out of place, because Engel, while not behaving perfectly, has been way less of an ass to Imaan? And I get that this is for Engel’s own preservation, sort of, but they’re not trying to gain social capital at the level that Vilde and Sana were. The OG girl squad wanted to attract cool people to their bus and hook up with popular boys; NL girl squad isn’t concerned with getting cool people on their trip, and while they want to go to parties, they don’t have this firm objective of hooking up with the popular dudes. So the moment seemed a bit out of nowhere. I mean, Engel rambling about her outfits is tedious, but harmless.

Imaan has some gorgeous lashes, by the way.

Clip 5 - This is a very serious show

Oh my God, they DID go for a bikini wax. So is the state of Engel’s pubic hair going to be a plot point? Does she want it to look groomed for him?

Okay, I’m laughing that Norwegian-style bush is a heart (ALT ER LOVE), French pubes are a mustache, and Dutch hedges are … flames? A flower? A flower for the ladygarden.

THE GRAVE IMPORTANCE OF THIS SCENE. The music and the cherub mural really add to the atmosphere.

Janna talks about an ass wax because of course she does.

I love that you hear a scream from the other room. Perfect.

I laughed out loud that Engel just shakes her head and runs. And that Imaan puts her arms around the girls and eggs them on.

I like Skam to have a plot and all but I would thoroughly enjoy 10 episodes of just random calamities in pubic hair removal.

Clip 6 - Orgy time

OH DAMN, I LOVE

This is my favorite episode 4 (or equivalent) power walk other than the original. I LOVE it. The song choice! The girls look like they’re having a blast. Engel jumping on Liv’s back!!! Imaan yelling in sync with the rooster crying!!!

ESPECIALLY with the juxtaposition of this badass power walk, the girls getting hyped and feeling cool on the way to the party - because yeahhhh!!!! Young and free, bitches!!!!! - with the pause where they’re actually standing in front of the door, debating over who has to ring the bell. That’s utterly beautiful, I love it. Expectations vs. reality right there.

Liv being like “It’s open,” lol.

Engel knows Olivia and company, I don’t think they said how?? Because we knew how Vilde knew Ingrid. But I mean, they go to school together, soooo. (Or did Engel get kicked off a city trip group?)

Janna, you promised an orgy, and this is a bunch of teenagers drinking and dancing in a basement. The clothes are most definitely on.

I was spoiled for Janna’s making out with a girl, but I still got hella excited when she and this girl were sticking out their tongues at each other.

Lmao, is Engel rambling about her car malfunctions to Noah? Maybe Imaan was right to shush her.

Also, Engel’s dad is in the picture. Or was, at a certain point.

Okay I don’t know if maybe this is fashionable for Dutch kids, but I love that Noah is wearing this baggy old man shirt.

And that his kiss with Engel is a little awkward.

Who is this kid. Why is he like this.

Lmao, Liv telling Isa to talk to Gijs about Tallinn so he’ll leave. Does not bode well for their city trip if that’s what she thinks?

WHOOPS, Isa forgot that dinner with Kes was supposed to happen.

Gijs does not know Tallinn is a city, so he’s like, “Who’s Tallinn?” lmao.

JANNA AND THAT GIRL GOING TO TOWN, YESSSSSSSS

So in terms of Skam remake wlw content, I believe we have:

Skam France: Alexia is bi. Of course I appreciate this but they haven’t really spotlighted it outside of like one or two comments, and they don’t really integrate her sexuality into the story or into the dialogue even when it would be relevant (which is a big problem with Skam France as a whole). It’s canon by the actress’ Word of God.

Druck: Mia is bi. In canon she “doesn’t like labels” and is shown to make out with Hanna, though that was for telling off Alexander. Bi by word of God.

Skam Austin: Shay takes Isak’s place in the story, having a crush on Megan which is her character’s motivation. This is the biggest wlw content, clearly, since Shay will hopefully get her own season. The character is a lesbian and her sexuality plays a role in the story, plus I’m pretty sure the actress is a lesbian herself (and is a black lesbian so we have intersectional diversity).

Skam NL: Janna makes out with a girl at a party. HOPEFULLY she isn’t straight and this isn’t just a drunken makeout because girls kissing at a party is hot. I hooooope.

Hmmm, you know what? I actually buy Imaan’s throwing water at Olivia a lot more, because Engel has at least tried to be nice to Imaan. Like I understand that Sana is fiercely loyal and once she’s on your team, she’s with you 110%, so once she’s with the girl squad, she’s ride or die. But assuming Imaan was throwing water at Olivia because Olivia called Engel a slut, I get why. Engel has been awkward and othered Imaan but she’s tried to be nice. (But for Engel, you know she’s going to be like WTF?)

I love this closing song as they run away into the night!

Is it wrong that I kind of like Noah so far? Because I get that he’s likely going to come with all of William’s bullshit, but ... he’s fucking weird, man.

Episode 5

Clip 1 - Making a family party awkward

Kes’ sister is a cutie!

Oh, I love that we got a little glimpse of his family? His mom, and his grandparents.

This really changes the tone of this scene from the original, because Eva goes over and encounters Jonas when he’s just hanging out with his friends and being passive-aggressive, and it felt like having the boys there made Jonas ramp up his attitude. Kes appears to be relaxed, he’s having a good time with his family. I wonder if these are the actor’s real relatives? The boys look like they could be his brothers.

But Kes does get in a passive-aggressive comment about her friends, and he’s been ignoring her for a few days.

Also, Lucas isn’t part of this moment where they’re ganging up on Isa, when the Isak is typically snickering at what’s happening.

We cut inside where relatives are having a pleasant time while the Youths fight. We don’t hear their argument but I mean, we know what they’re talking about.

Kes is like, “I forgot about the dinner,” as if he’s not upset, which makes Isa storm out, and his family notices that she’s upset.

Isa is out on the street and she once again puts in her earbuds and listens to music to get out her feelings. I like that as a stress release/coping tactic/whatever you want to call it for her.

This is a Sigrid song, by the way! “Strangers,” a totally appropriate song for relationship dysfunction and dismantling the perfect movie romance. Really interesting with Isa’s somewhat romanticized view of love - sometimes you just know, that’s how it’s supposed to be, etc.

Is Kes going to run out after her?

Nope, he doesn’t run after her. Not like in the movies. Isa just does a walk down the street. She’s not happy but it seems like listening to music steadies her a bit and gives her an outlet for her emotions so that she’s not a total mess.

Clip 2 - Engel does not know how the pill works, sigh

The title of this clip was Het is Zover and there was a still of Liv so I was like … are we finally headed down this f/f romcom route? Het is Over? (I know, I know, it has an actual meaning in Dutch.) But it ended up referring to something heterosexual, lmao.

I like Isa’s little toucan key chain.

Isa is not in a good mood, Liv looks fondly at her girl and asks about Kes. Liv knows what’s up with 17-year-old boys.

Engel pops up and says it’s time for her and Noah to go to the bone zone. Isa is like, that was fast. So I guess they are going down this sex storyline; the wax was a fun bonus.

Engel being like “I know It’s Time because I DMed with Noah all weekend and he’s perfect” - God help us.

Engel asks for the pill like she’s asking for ibuprofen, and when she says eh, it’ll be nothing then, Liv is like nuh uh, you’re going to the doctor. Thank you, Liv.

Engel gets them to agree to go by offering a bottle of wine each. When Isa tells Liv that she (Liv) doesn’t even drink, Liv is like, two for you, right? WHOOOOOOA. True love right there.

I had the worst thought and wondered if Engel’s failure to get her pubes waxed is going to lead to Noah making a shit comment about them later, like when Engel confronts him. Because teenage boys think girls should be completely hairless, like porn stars or babies!

Clip 3 - Isa can’t sleep

Isa is watching a video on her phone when she gets a notification about something her dad posted. It’s a little kid getting a swimming certificate, so I’m guessing that’s her dad’s new family.

Isa gets up to go sit on her mom’s bed. She asks for a foot rub, which her mom gives her, until her mom starts asking about Olivia and Tess. Then the feet come back up to Isa’s chest.

Her mom’s like, I’m just trying to show interest. Isa is probably thinking that’s more than her dad does. She extends a leg again.

Perhaps that’s why Isa opens up to her and tells her she has a boyfriend. When she tells her mom his name is Kes, her mom doesn’t comment on it being Olivia’s boyfriend’s name or anything, so maybe she didn’t know Kes and Olivia dated?

Isa asks her mom whether she thought she and her dad would be together forever, and then when she change her mind. Isa’s mom says that sometimes things go differently from how you expected. I really like this scene. It goes in with Isa “just knowing” that you’re meant to be with someone, as mentioned in episode 2, and then this reality that crashes in on you. It’s awesome that they tied in these elements of Isa’s absent father and divorced/separated parents, Isa’s relationship with her mom who’s locked out of certain elements in her life, and Isa’s relationship with Kes to the overall idea of being with someone forever. I think Isa questioning the nature and longevity of love could end up being a really satisfying part of her arc. I can’t wait to see the final clip of the season; I hope they modify her speech to Kes so that it fits with all these moments and what she’s learned.

She gets back into bed and apologizes to Kes for being a bitch sometimes, because obviously she doesn’t want their relationship to end, and then stares at the ceiling with that one damn glow in the dark shooting star.

Clip 4 - Doctor visit

The girls go to the doctor with Engel. Liv and Imaan entertain themselves by playing with a model of a torso. Kes and Isa make up via text, he says he loves her even when she’s angry.

I love that Engel looks small in that big chair against the giant window, truly mimicking how overwhelmed she must be feeling.

Where’s Janna? I have to say that I look forward to her reactions on anything vagina-related.

I guess she had to miss the fun because she had to make up for being late to German, but it’s really cool how Imaan volunteered to join them considering I think the Sanas usually sit this excursion out.

The doctor comes out and IT’S A MAN THIS TIME??? Oh fuck!

I mean I know plenty of women don’t have a problem with a male OB-GYN, but for a girl who’s perhaps afraid to get a bikini wax, I think she would be a little shy about talking about birth control with a dude.

This doc is handsome, not gonna lie. I can’t imagine if that would make it more or less awkward. I do think that it’s less awkward with your friends, so good call, Engel.

The doc is asking Engel some basic questions and Engel answers more confidently than I expected, so good for her. Imaan rats out Engel by saying she’s only known the guy for a week. Well, maybe it’s not the wisest choice, Imaan, but that means Engel should definitely be on birth control!

Liv also shares that Noah sleeps with the whole school, and the doc mentions that the pill only helps with pregnancy, not STDs. Bless him. I mean he’s just doing his job, but bless. This is a good message to include on the show.

OH MY GOD when that doc brought out the dildo for the condom demonstration. He was completely matter-of-fact and professional but geeeeez I would have found this to be the most embarrassing thing at 16.

Clip 5 - CONDOMS, ENGEL, CONDOMS CONDOMS CONDOMS

The girls evaluate condom choices. Strawberry, banana, glow-in-the-dark. Don’t get the banana ones. I love real bananas but artificial banana flavor on anything is a gamble.

I can’t tell, who said that king-sized wasn’t for Noah? Janna? I want to give her an award.

This clip was so short but I loved it! Just sweet and funny, wonderful girl squad dynamic, adorable.

As an aside, please watch the first 30 seconds of this scene and imagine it with Engel as Rose, Janna as Blanche, and Imaan as Dorothy.

Clip 6 - Engel’s softcore fashion fantasy

Janna has the right idea by blowing up a condom into an elephant trunk.

Janna doesn’t remember anything from her first time. That bit never stops being alarming, tbh.

Janna is also adamant that Noah needs to do his best and make sure Engel has an orgasm. Good job, Janna! That’s something I’ve always wondered with the Williams of the show: do they actually try to make the experience pleasurable for the Vildes? Because Vilde is like, “It was great!” but she’s also speaking from inexperience, and she might just be overcompensating, who knows? I mean, I don’t think she would actually tell the girls if it sucked.

Engel doesn’t know what an orgasm feels like, she doesn’t know how to get wet, she doesn’t want to get horny. Look, everyone should learn at their own pace, but my professional opinion is that this poor girl should take some time on her own before sleeping with a random dude she has known for a week.

Who hasn’t even arrived on time to get laid. Oh God, please just blow her off completely? Don’t make us and Engel go through this again. Lesser of two evils.

Janna eats a banana. I just wanted to write that.

Liv is there to administer horny-making fantasies to Engel. Lmao, Isa had to get up off her chair and go sit on the bed next to Liv while Liv is talking dirty. I wonder why….

Ohhhh my God. This fantasy of Engel’s? WOW. It is really not “allowed” within the Skam format but honestly, fuck it, this is too weird not to appreciate. This is some ’90s music video realness, I expected 98 Degrees to walk out. Except it mostly focuses on Engel’s attire and makeup and hair, so maybe it’s more like a perfume ad?

Lmao, Engel getting turned on by herself more than Noah really stands out when you see the visual.

Janna tells the anecdote about getting turned on by donkeys, but it was supposedly just a whole other village that had the donkey kink rather than her. Bless her.

The girls need to get out because Kes is supposed to arrive, but of course, when Isa opens the front door, it’s Noah, come for his booty call. Isa’s mom is really cute in how she’s excited to see “Kes.”

Engel is? “Not my girlfriend.” Noah, you dumb fuck. Why do you need to clarify that shit to someone’s mom who you’re only going to know for like two seconds?

I mean, it’s foreshadowing as to Noah’s fuckboy ways, and that Engel will get her heart broken, but duuuuude quell your ass down.

Isa is like, nah mom, those girls tripping on the stairs and babbling weren’t drunk! Lol, sure.

When Isa calls Kes, it absolutely sounds like he was at a party with the level of background chatter. You hear Olivia’s voice clearly but they’re definitely surrounded by people.

Of course Kes is not coming, and Isa’s mom overhears enough on the phone conversation to realize. She tells her that they can eat, just the two of them. I really like Isa’s mom, she’s cute.

Great sad closing song.

General Comments/Social Media

Engel stuck Liv’s own song on their Tallinn playlist and Liv’s like, time to delete that!

I love Janna naming the group chat weird stuff, and everyone acknowledging that group chat names are never normal.

This remake makes my heart so warm! The girl squad is so lovely and fun. I adored the pubic hair side plot, lmao, and the twists on the doctor visit and the condom retrieval. Little moments like that with the girls have made the dynamic so entertaining.

As for the boys, I think Lucas is a fantastic Isak. Kes has his typical Jonas S1 dickhead moments, but he’s also got charm, and God help me but I am enjoying Noah’s whatever-the-fuck-ness. Like I’m aware he’s going to be a creep, but currently I like taking the piss out of him and his wardrobe and attitude.

As I mentioned previously, I think they’re doing some great moments with Isa’s character arc and tying in her family issues to her relationship issues, and having her talk about love or question love in the abstract.

I am not Dutch, so feel free to correct me if I missed anything.

If you got this far, thank you for reading!

#skamnl reactions #skam nl reactions

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replicarters · 6 years ago

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i was at northeast trek con this weekend, if you couldn’t deduce it from my posts that must have sounded like they were coming from some sort of hallucinatory trip. to say i had fun would be a wild understatement. if you slot this con on an alignment chart, it would be wall-to-wall chaotic good. the theme advertised was celebrating the 25th anniversary of ds9... and boy did we celebrate.

what follows is everything i feverishly tweeted about the wildest 72 hours of my life.

the only reason i went to this con at all was @thylekshran, who wanted to see one mr. jeffwey combs very badly. @jadziadax happened to say to me one night, “hey you should go to this con happening where you live to see nicole,” and i said, “wait a minute, isn’t this the con dylan wants to go to? what if i actually Did go to this?”

friday: i grabbed dylan, somehow, from the bus stop that i think didn’t quite exist on this plane. we get to the con and we walk into the exhibit hall. nicole is right by the door and i cannot look at her, so we beeline for vendor tables, and suddenly before me is an extremely familiar spread of colorful images. it takes me a minute to process it, and then i’m pointing to this table and rushing toward it going, “OH MY GOD. IT’S HER! FROM TUMBLR! OH MY GOD WHAT.” it was none other than @abravenoise selling prints!!!! i had no idea she would be there since i didn’t look at anything before i left the house. just fyi she is irl just about the nicest person i’ve ever met!!!!!! and i’m so glad we got to hang out as much as we did!

we spent the day mostly going to panels and being big baby chickens regarding jeff’s and nicole’s tables, respectively. we did end up at jg hertzler’s table A Lot, because dylan, like, is recognized?? by him and his wife??? idk dylan’s just out here charming the pants off everybody, so i was like, okay cool, this is the first thing that is Totally Fine, just chilling with martok. we also met two cool dudes through jg who really enjoyed hanging out with us, and that was great! making friends all over the place! not the first and not the last!

one thing dylan and i were bummed about was that the klingon meet & greet party that night (where jg and robert o’reilly would get in costume as martok and gowron and duel to the death) was sold out. we really really really wanted to go... so dylan just... straight up asks jg if he can get us in dhfklshdfd. and you know what? he fucking does. just... put our names right on that list! O K A Y!

the friday panels were a sign of what would be to come, every one we went to was crazy. this was my first real trek con, so of course i have never seen hertzler and o’reilly in a room together, but now i have and my third eye is open and all that. not to mention: learning that garrett wang plays pokemon go, nicole cracking up at poop jokes like i said, hertzler doodling a little shran with glasses on jeff’s sign, the con’s power point file just being named DRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. everything that was happening was so good.

chase masterson had a panel about her pop culture hero coalition, and currently working for a non-profit myself, i was really curious about what kinds of programming they do, so i went to her table to talk to her about it. chase ended up talking some about the why’s of starting the coalition, what it meant to her, her own struggles with depression, and i’m thinking to myself, “uhhhhhh well if chase is gonna share about her mental health struggles, then... i... will also do this.” the nanosecond i said something about experiencing difficulty with self-love, she was zeroed in on me like a cruise missile. i spilled everything to her about my job and how my old boss was basically the meanest, most miserable person alive, and how much she got into my head and how now that i was out of that department, i had to pick up the pieces and it was proving to be much harder than it has been in the past. well, god almighty, chase just had the nicest things to say in return, and we commiserated over being your own worst critic, and how ridiculously hard it is to have this fight against yourself over and over again, but that we deserve so much and going forward is worth it. jesus christ! i got a big hug and said to myself, “holy shit i can’t wait to tell my therapist that a star trek actor talked to me about mindfulness and now i want to learn the hell out of it.”

oh but then it was time for the klingon party that we were now going to thanks to jg hertzler. this thing was off the chain immediately, martok and gowron had their duel, first with sparkling bat’leths that fell apart, and then with whole baguettes, and i can’t believe i got to watch this with my eye parts. and that was the beginning; the party would go for another 3 hours, almost all of which i spent dancing with the most generous people i’ve ever met, who went out of their way to welcome everyone they could onto the dance floor, regardless of physical ability or skill level. there was one woman in particular who, if she saw even the slightest twinkle in your eye and you weren’t already dancing with her, she’d be like, “you, get over here!” i don’t know how my body did that for all that time without falling apart.

our esteemed guests began showing up, and garrett wang leapt into the middle of our jump around circle and gave each one of us a vulcan high five. jeffrey combs showed up which of course sent dylan over the moon, and he said, “you go, girl!” to her dancing. max grodenchik gave dylan one of his drink tickets and then asked us whether or not we thought the existence of god could be proven. chase found us and reached out her hand over a couple people’s heads to give me a supportive hand squeeze (!!!???). aron eisenberg, i don’t know what the hell he was doing, but i feel like maybe somebody asked him about terry, because all of a sudden i hear something like, “terry left because she was in love with nog and couldn’t take it anymore.” garrett has three pokemon go accounts, which he showed off at my urging, and let me tell you, don’t encounter him at a gym because he has three dragonites, two tyranitars, a monster blissey, and god knows what else. dancing, dancing, more dancing. then it was time for it to be done, and time to go home. we watched reanimator. i was wired as hell and barely slept.

and THAT. was only friday.

saturday: i had kept my eyes open for a copy of the lives of dax the day before, but didn’t see anybody selling one. this morning, i walk by a booth we went to the previous day and all of sudden, on top of a bunch of other books in a big tub, there it was!!! couldn’t have forked my money over faster if i tried.

then i had this bright idea. hey... here’s a copy of lives of dax... and nicole is here... and she should sign it... and then in the future i can get terry to sign it... boom, bang, let’s do it, right? i had dylan drag me to nicole’s table because i was like, “i am never going to make even eye contact with her if you do not physically take me there,” and one of us brought up that we missed her at the klingon party. it’s cool, we all gotta sleep, right? well, it turns out nicole had gone out with the gaaays in spaaace people to the bar where they were going to have their party later. so she says garrett texts her, “uhhh hey you know you’re kinda supposed to be making an appearance at this thing, right?” nope! no clue. so she texts him back, “hmmm uhhh well,” takes another sip of her drink, “i think i’m doing good work here.”

the thing about nicole that i somehow missed in my drinking in of all ds9 actor content is that she embodies pure shitposter energy, but if the shitposts were coming from a wine mom. she’s hysterical, 50% intentionally and 50% unintentionally. an extremely excellent human. she signed lives of dax, i had my tribble photo op with her later (that i almost missed due to getting into a conversation with larry nemecek!) and she said she was going to the gays in space party later. helllll yes. i hope somebody puts up her q&a because she told a RIDICULOUS story about auditioning for ezri and creeping on jeri ryan on a plane. i can’t do it justice, there are movements that have to be seen.

we went to combsland finally, and i grilled him about whether or not herbert killed the cat, and we learned jeff has two cats! show them off, man! where are the vids! then, and i had never planned to do this, i bought an autograph from him, and the shran i bought it on ended up selling out! crazy.

hertzler had doodled a martok above his table, and so this combined with the little shran from yesterday led me to these words coming out of my mouth: “can i pay you for a drawing? can i pay you for a drawing of jadzia and martok brofisting?” he gave it very serious thought, said he was gonna have to look at a lot of pictures of terry (relatable), and told me to give him my e-mail. between him and his wife, i hope to god one of them remembers my e-mail is in his wallet. let me give you money!!!

my next tweets jump right to gays in space - again, dylan knows a lot of the gis folks, so i didn’t feel like i was going into this totally unawares. we’re chilling at the bar, i’m drinking my cranberry juice, and then o’reilly, aron, and nicole arrive, telling everybody that jg’s probably going to be late because a bouncer pushed his wife and he might go to jail. like, kidding, but also... it’s jg hertzler and he could legitimately fuck you up. so he was gonna be late, regardless.

nicole sees dylan and me and comes to say hello (????!!!!!) and somebody ends up saying, “get this lady a drink!” yeah, dylan and i were on that. in fact, i pulled my credit card out like i cared not one bit about identity theft, fico scores, my own personal finances; i would purchase this alcohol in an alley from a guy using a card skimmer. few minutes tick by and then i’ve officially bought a drink for nicole de boer (?????????!!!!!!!!) and i’m giving it to her (????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and we’re clinking our glasses together (?????????????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) i’m clinking glasses with nicole fucking de boer and somehow managing to be normal about it. i’m not altogether convinced i didn’t exit the universe entirely by this point and end up in another one.

the gays in space party was AMAZING, it was just as fun as the klingon party! if you have a chance to go to one, please do, there’s like no way you could ever regret it. you get treated to star trek-themed drag shows, get to mingle, there was a raffle, the people were just as friendly as the previous day, it was so great. we were out very late for my old lady body clock but it was worth every bit of exhaustion we felt the next morning, after the saga of actually getting home past a blocked off road and dylan slicing herself open on the bottom of my passenger seat.

sunday: nicole sees me, mid-yawn, and gives me one of those, “eyyy you and me went through some shit last night huh?” looks and tells me good morning. ( ? ? ? ? ? ! ! ! you know this drill.) combs ended up on the escalator behind us after his panel and i turned around and i said to him, “hey jeff, you got any pictures of your cats with you?” (no, but he has a black cat and a very vocal calico.) i went to chase’s table again and got another hug right out of the gate, we took a pic together, and she told me i was powerful! yo! or rather yooooooooooooooooooo!

the con was winding down at this point, but there was one more thing left: jeopardy. the jeopardy game was done at the first northeast trek con and was so popular they did it again, and i really, really hope someone uploads it to youtube because it is beyond description. first of all, the whole draw were the contestants: you could enter a raffle to end up on either hertzler’s, aron’s, or garrett’s team. the champion from the last game ended up buying half the tickets, so he was on it again, and not on aron’s team, much to aron’s annoyance because god almighty did he want to win. he was about to commit murder in there. someone said nicole was upset that she wasn’t in the game because she really wanted to play, lmfao. so the guys running it were like, “well, go get her, she can be on garrett’s team!” which sent aron into a fucking tailspin. now we got a team with two people on it?! they got nicole and drew the other winners, and the game began.

one of the rules was “this isn’t going to be fair. at all.” actually, it was two of the rules. despite this, you’d have thought aron was bitten by a rabid raccoon. every lost question almost got him flipping the table over. nicole belatedly, i’m talking like 5 minutes into it, realizes she doesn’t understand the rules of jeopardy and can’t figure out why “their” question was answered by someone else. she can’t believe someone knew what voyager’s registry number was. one of the questions was, “a young kid called ensign kim this name instead of ‘ensign’,” and with no hesitation, she answers, “asshole,” and wasn’t even joking, that was her actual guess. R E A L W I N E M O M H O U R S

the winner was hertzler and the previous champ. aron wants to ban the guy from buying tickets ever again. we head to the closing ceremony but it doesn’t happen? lmfao. well, guess the con’s over!

@abravenoise, one of our other con pals, and dylan were all taking the same bus that night, so we all went to grab dinner with two other guys, one who was a con pal and one i hadn’t encountered at all, and halfway through our dinner larry nemecek strolls in and sits down with us. things just keep happening, huh? the guy i hadn’t encountered at all was really impressed with me unhinging my jaw to consume my burger, and halfway through doing this i have to stop because he says, “hey, why the HECK did jadzia die?!” ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh here go hell come. my time to shine.

larry like looooves asking people what brought them to star trek, and this time he was asking us the -whys- of what brings us to star trek. i said the characters, for sure. he asked us about our favorites. i told him mine had changed throughout my life, but that when i was a kid, dr. crusher was my first favorite. he said, “in high school?” i said, “no, i mean, when i was REALLY little. like 4 or 5.” he asked me, “wow, have you ever met gates at a con and told her that?” pfft well, no, but first of all, now you got me wanting that, second of all i said what i really wanted was to swap cat pictures with her.

that was the end. i took everybody to their bus, went home, snuggled up in bed, and just asked myself, “what the fuck happened?” i still don’t know! but it was fun as hell, and amazingly impactful, if i’m being honest with you. i was surrounded by so many people brimming with enthusiasm, so many people who were happy. then there’s me, a curmudgeon who’s done everything in her power to stamp down her happiness all in the name of being ~cool or whatever. and it hasn’t made me very happy. i mean, i am also clinically depressed, there is that. but i’ve stopped sharing the things i enjoy with others, especially in recent years. i’ve closed myself off, mostly out of fear and attempting to survive my old job, but even here, i tend to keep myself at a distance, and i thought it was just because i’ve run the whole gamut of loving something before and just want to hang out with my friends. i think it’s more than that, though. i think it’s more of a defensive posture, and it’s that same posture which is running my life right now. it’s exhausting. this weekend wasn’t exhausting. it was in the sense that the human body needs rest and sleep and food and i wasn’t getting nearly enough of any of it, but emotionally, i was unburdened.

it would be nice to be that way all the time. i don’t know if it’ll be possible to be happy again like the people i met this weekend, but i do know that i want to experience this over and over and over again.

now, next time, maybe @rootmacklin and @jadziadax will be with me and we’ll be showing off our friendship necklaces to a very tall lady. that would be a good step toward unlocking my happiness...

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derpcakes · 6 years ago

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Time for the MUCH BELATED reaction/thoughts post for KnK movie nine! This one’s about FUTURE VISION!

Okay there’s something I have to get out of the way first

-A CHILD

-THEY HAD A KID

-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

-True to form the story just hurls this at you matter-of-factly. Just. Bloop. Okay we’re in the future now and Shiki’s a mob boss and has a ten-year-old daughter. Process this on your own time, we have mysteries to solve. Also this isn’t even the main part of the story but an extra bit of bonus plot at the end. Have a nice day!

-You can’t just throw ten seconds of grown-up yakuza boss Shiki at me and then leave it there I need a whole movie about this

Actual footage of the Ryougi wedding, I can only assume:

(The explosion in the background was caused by Azaka, who was not being a very supportive bridesmaid)

-Come to think of it, clearly the reason Azaka does not appear post-timeskip is because hearing that Shiki was pregnant caused her to spontaneously combust

-The kiddo introduces herself as Mana Ryougi, which presumably means Mikiya has taken Shiki’s surname too :,) I can only assume he takes care of the house while Shiki runs the city’s seedy underground with a fist of steel and eyes of death. These Type-Moon boys make for such good supportive househusbands

-Meanwhile of course Mana is spending her time hanging out at her mama’s office intimidating criminals. This kid is going to have the weirdest and wildest youth.

One day, in Shiki’s workplace:

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-I wonder what her magic powers are? Because even without any present magic she is the most Powerful child ever known to man. Definitely the most Powerful child ever known to this particular man, who she has adopted

-So yeah, that bomber dude ends up working for Shiki and being taken under the wing of her precocious daughter! It’s nice to see her providing opportunities for disadvantaged magical youth. It just goes to highlight how the number of redeemable villains vastly outweighs the number of irredeemable ones (which are really only Araya and Rio... and Cornelius, if you count him as a “villain” rather than “an annoyance temporarily attached to a bigger actual villain”). The majority of this series’ antagonists have just been mixed up kids of some variety just reacting to a dire situation with the only tools they have. They are almost never “defeated” so much as removed from those situations--the lady controlling the ghosts dies and is finally at peace, Enjou dies too but dies with some closure and purpose, removed from the horrible automatic system; Fujino is freed from her pain and given a second chance at life, and the bomber kid is freed from the future vision that is giving him such a warped outlook.

-The last two are especially interesting because Shiki uses her unstoppable kill-anything powers to do good, to “kill” the parts of these characters’ lives causing them pain and trouble, rather than just seeing the characters themselves as monsters and killing them. I really enjoy that, and the more I think about it the more wonderfully Nasu it is--a defiantly hopeful ending/new beginning in a dark and desolate story world.

-I’m having some emotions thinking about this, honestly. Nice going mushroom man

-Also Seo is cute! Cute!! And her dog is cute and she deserves to be happy!!!

-Seo also refers to Azaka as her “bestie” so it’s nice to see that she is capable of positive human interaction with at least SOME people

-Oh man that little flashback to murderboy Shiki at the very end.... I felt a feeling

-And Mana knows about it, because she says “you did mother... I mean father a great favour back then” to the fortune teller lady. I wonder just how much Mana knows about all the crazy shit that’s happened to her parents. I appreciate their honestly, tbh--it seems like they’re going to be one of the more functional, nurturing and communicative mage families around

-The amount of domestic Ryougi family adventures I need is unbearable. Where are they, Nasu??? Bring them to me!! Bring me their dinnertime conversations and how Shiki and Mikiya feel about being parents and Mana growing up and aaaaaaaa!!

-Me: ugh “babies ever after” endings are so weak and boring Me when this trope happens to a couple I actually like and believe in: holy shit

#the big knk watchalong

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2χ04 Oh look Cami is back. Blah. And of course she does not have any life or friends and only has to talk about her attraction to Klaus. I am shocked. And she wanted to save Klaus? Her abuser? The 1000 yo vampire monster? Girl seriously just stop. She is an idiot. Hayley is an asshole and a bit stupid but she is an idiot. What is wrong with her? How many times did she hit her head as a child? And when did Finn get a degree in psychology? Lol

“As a devout feminist I refuse to say that you hit like a girl.” So the first thought that came to mind: FUCK OFF! They do not even understand how offensive they are, do they?

So Cami sole purpose is to analyze Klaus so to save him? That’s it? What happened with the human faction and taking over Kierran’s place? And she constantly speaks nonsense. She has no idea what is talking about and she is basically just fawning over Klaus like a prison groupie. It is embarrassing. Btw is she is playing at being his therapist aside from doing it all wrong she is also extremely unprofessional. -

- Didn’t they teach her in whatever school she went at not to hit on her patients and take advantage of their doctor-patient relationship because she has the hots for a patient? Also why do they dress her like a granny?

Cami is basically trying to dissuade Klaus from killing Mikael? Really? She has no idea what she is talking about or any concept of how dangerous that is. For crying out loud she speaks about monsters and vampires as if they are her lovely neighbors from next door she can send to therapy because they have a middle age life crisis.

Elijah and Gia are actually interesting. I think this is the first ship in TO that got my attention and it is weird because Elijah in this show gives me the creeps and is progressively annoying me in a disgusting kind of way.

LMFAO Cami is trying to psychoanalyze Mikael..MIKAEL with her bullshit. I can’t! That woman is the definition of stupid! She does not even know him and analyzes him based on what Klaus has told her because that is what therapists do. And she is standing in front of a murderous vampire and babbles NONSENSE as if she is studying for a test. And nothing of what she says is remotely professional. And to top that before she actually met Mikael she gave to Klaus advice on how he shouldn’t kill -

- Mikael without having any concept of the dangerous implications her bullshit could have if Klaus actually bought what she was selling but now that Mikael tries to kill her she is like..oh yeah..Klaus was right to fear Mikael and to want to kill him…YA THINK? Girl come on now! And we are here to believe that somehow this moron understands Klaus in a deeper level? She cannot even understand simple facts of survival and logic. She is a liability. And now she is like kill that bastard Mikael so -

- I assume that Mikael can’t be saved right? All that backwards logic applies only to Klaus who btw killed all those compelled innocent campers before going after Mikael. Everyone else is a monster & the only difference in her head is what? That Klaus gives her the puppy eyes and she's falling for him? I can’t even. I thought the worst character in this show was Hayley but she's irrelevant. Cami is irrelevant too but the levels of her stupidity astound me more & more with every episode she is in

2x05 and Klaus is giving the white oak stake to a human? How has he survived in this show for so long? God I miss Klaus from TVD.

And now Hayley a baby vampire can beat Mikael? Seriously? They try so hard to prop her up and it makes no sense. And Klaus mumbles to Mikael that is outnumbered and all I can thing of is Obi wan telling Anakin he has the higher ground LMAO… This show makes me feel as if I age a hundred years by watching each episode. I am so tired LOL

“You can’t rewrite history”. The fact they address the audience like that when they just step over everything the fans liked from the originals and rewrite it into a worse version no one asked for or want is insane. Like if it ain't broke don't fix it. More so if it ends up in a huge plothole. Elijah’s red door. More retconning. More pointless crap. And they wasted Nina’s crossover for that? Why are they trying so hard to change what they have established in TVD? I do not get it.

HOW? How is it humanly possible for professional writers to mess up so badly? I mean worst case scenario there is google. There is wiki. There is youtube for refreshing their memories in old scenes. How can they mess up the way Klaus murdered Esther? It is canon dude. Or change the gender of the first sibling. They are not writing fanfiction for crying out loud! What is even going on? Bad writing I get. Lack of talent I get. Tropes and bad characters and OOC I get. But this? This I DO NOT get.

The dialogue is unbelievably bad. They spell everything. Exposition to the fullest and worst of all their intentions and what they think of what they write and show is spelled out because something they believe the audience is too stupid to comprehend what they show? All that babbling and in the end nothing comes out of it. They just repeat the same stuff over and over again with a very outdated vocabulary. They should try going at some writing seminars or something.

LOL The show is so cheap and they got a few stunts doing parkour and they think that somehow this equates to action and hype? Oh boy. I have seen people making all sort of comments for this show but it is a whole different thing actually watching it with your own eyes.

At least we get to see Klaus’ father. That is something I wanted to see from TVD and I am glad they are getting into it. The actor seems good and he does have a resemblance with Morgan. But on the other hand I can't have that joy because... The firstborn of each generation? Seriously? Again with the miracle baby? Geez enough already. No one cares. And to top that they go for a version of what? The wicked witch that goes after babies? I don’t know what I expected.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? They kill Klaus' father in one episode? All the potential! All the possibilities! All the stories to cover! Things that every Klaus fan wanted to see ever since TVD and the kill him? ARE THEY NUTS? And they kill him for that baby shit? ARE THEY COMPLETELY OUT OF THEIR MINDS? Okay. Now I am bitter. Like hell I am bitter!

That's not fair. Why tease us with killing Hayley only to have her saved at the end? Bummer. But sure. We get to keep Hayley and a baby that makes no sense with talentless PT as a cherry on top but they kill Klaus' father in one episode because this show is about everything except Klaus and the Originals.

What also is so weird is the way Cami talks? People speak to her in a normal way and even in every day simple conversations she responds with psychological terminology. Who even does that?

They start the episode with a ball of football and I remember the time when Klaus saw one in TVD and kicked Elena's door with it and then threw planks at Damon aiming to skewer him and was about to burn the house down. Here they show babies and the miracle baby on a swing and Klaus babbling about parents protecting their children. Well at least it shows the difference between Klaus in TVD and that mess they created in TO and which is which.

That's it? They brought Klaus' father in the show not for Klaus but so Hayley could learn about a weird marriage ritual? What the actual fuck? This is truly the Hayley show. I don't know what to say. I am sorry for the spamming and I will stop if you want. I just never expected this when I started the show. It is beyond the wildest imagination and to imagine I have seen comments here and there about how much TO is a trash show but I never expected this.

1. Holy shit you got far and clearly have had a lot to deal with.

2. Yes oh my fucking god the devout feminist thing.

3. The red door was so dumb and it annoys me to no end that they have actual complex and interesting things they could write about and are just like oh well here’s this completely simple and mundane explanation for that.

4. I have no idea why the writers don’t use the TVD wikia and I know that at least Carina reads my blog and has read me complaining about how badly they fuck up the basic facts of the show so I have to believe that this is an “artistic” choice.

5. Someday @klarolinedrabbles will be 95 years old, laying in bed, she’ll scream “why the FUCK would they kill Ansel after one episode”, have a stroke, and die.

6. HAYLEY SUCKS AND THE BABY SUCKS I AGREE

#the originals for ts #long post #Anonymous

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thoughtfulwooshin · 7 years ago

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Dog sitter

Pairing: Christian Yu x Reader

Genre: Mafia!au, fluff.

A/N: this is my first mafia!au ever, it’ s also the first time I’ve written in a bulleted format. honestly, its more of a gang than a mafia lol. I also wanted to say thank you to @insomniac21 for requesting and for all of the encouragement! I really needed it. hope you enjoy.

okay so this is about to lowkey be cliché but it’s alright

so you have a full time job as well as going to college. but bills for college, your apartment and car were a pain in the ass, so you apply for a part time job

which is dog sitting

you get called by a man and he asks you to come and watch his miniature pinscher, Lori, for a couple of days. he says she doesn’t bite and she’s very friendly, so you decide to do it.

you went over to the address he sent you around 1:30, and pulled up to the apartment complex

you went to the apartment number and knocked on his door

you were nervous asf

he opened the door slightly, only so that you could see his hair and not even half of his face

you smiled awkwardly and told him you were there for Lori, and he opened the door all of the way after that

and HOly shit

he was hot

in a tank top and shorts with his curly hair messy

and he smiled a bit before inviting you in

“okay so” he spoke

HE HAD AN AUSTRAILIAN ACCENT wtf

(you didn’t know because when he called you for the job he was speaking Korean, you told him you can speak both so yeah)

“Lori is a bit of different dog, she doesn’t bark…like at all. she likes to sit on your lap and follow you everywhere you go”

he was talking to you and little old Lori ran up to you, wagging her little nubby tail

“don’t yell at her, she’ll get scared and sad. she likes to go for walks, so I guess take her every couple of hours. I have to go to work so I should be back around 11 pm or 12 am. it depends on what i’m dealing with.” he said everything carefully while he watched you rub Lori

you looked up at him from the floor and smiled as he spoke and then

he sat with you and Lori on the floor and began playing with her too

“don’t you have to go to work?” you asked him

he looked at you with an eyebrow raised

“you tryna get rid of me?” he asked as he laughed a little

you got flustered as hell

“well no it’s just that…I don’t know”

he smiled “you’re here early, I have like 10 minutes until I have to leave. I can leave now if you feel uncomfortable”

“NO…no. i’m alright. I just don’t want you to be late, I guess”

he smiled at you again

okay so boom he left

you and Lori were chilling, watching tv and eating some snacks you brought with you from home

so you kinda get hungry for real food and you put Lori on her leash so that you guys can go get some food

and you pass an alleyway

but Lori starts barking

SHE NEVER BARKS so you start to panic

then you hear a voice that sounds so familiar

then she somehow gets off of the leash!?

so she’s running, and you’re running after her

then you see hella guys standing over a guy….this dude is on the floor leaking blood from his mouth

“Lori! Lori get back here!” you screamed

that caused everyone to look at you

then you see Christian

and his eyes WIDEN LIKE WTF ARE YOU DOING HERE

you bow and apologize over and over and grabbed Lori to leave but you knew damn well it wasn’t gonna be that easy

Christian grabbed your arm and pulled you and Lori into him, hiding your face in his chest

“Ian, who the hell are they?” asked some random dude, he sounded mad

“no one. i’m gonna take them home, Live. i’ll be back.”

the Live guy was going to say something before a black car drove into the alleyway and hella guys with tattoos and bats got out

Christian pushed you behind him and told you to keep quiet

all of the guys from out of the truck were shouting and then boom

they all started fighting

“Christian, take them and go! I’ll see you soon!” screamed Live as he fought off two guys at once

you guys ran as fast as you could to his car and he sped off to get you and Lori back to his house

you were in shock like…what the fuck just happened?

the whole drive back to his house was silent and rushed and he put his sweatshirt over your head to cover you face and he pushed you into the apartment harshly

you were on the floor from his push and he locked the door and turned around slowly

his cheeks and ears were flushed red…and he was mad

“what the hell were you thinking!?” he yelled

Lori hid into your arms and you got upset…you did nothing wrong

you put Lori down and stood up, taking his sweatshirt off of you and throwing it at him and you began yelling

“don’t you dare yell at me, you asshole! I was hungry so I took Lori with me to get some food and she heard your voice-“

he cut you off “there’s food here! you don’t know what you just did to yourself…they could’ve seen your face!”

“well I didn’t want any of your damn food! if I knew you were in a gang I wouldn’t have come here to begin with!”

he stared at you slightly and then rubbed his hand down his face

you went and sat on the couch, head in your hands

there was a knock on the door, making you jump and look at Christian

he opened it and about six or seven boys came in, faces bleeding and cuts everywhere

you got off of the couch “everyone sit down. Christian, do you have a first aid kit?”

everyone looked at you like you were crazy and Christian ran to the bathroom, grabbing you the kit

you were about to work on Lives face first when he grabbed your wrist defensively

and Christian grabbed his hand, taking it off of your wrist. you looked at Christian and smiled a bit

“just trust her, guys. I trust her.” Christian spoke, carefully while smiling down at you

so you clean everyones face and bandage them up and then they all leave, leaving you and Christian in comfortably awkward (?) silence

“y/n, I’m so sorry you had to see all of this…I never wanted you to be involved in this.”

you sat down next to him on the couch, smiling understandably

“its okay, everybody has different jobs and I can tell you’re not a bad person”

“honestly, they would’ve killed you for seeing us in the alley…my crew, were called DPR. I trust you for some reason, and I’m really sorry for yelling at you earlier.”

“well i’ll watch Lori at any time, and yeah I’m a pretty trustworthy person. it’s okay, I don’t hold grudges.”

he looked at you with serious eyes

uh oh

“you do know that since you’re involved now, you’re most likely not going to get out of this, right?”

you sighed

this shit is gonna be rough

“yeah…I mean I guess that’s okay? I have no choice but to deal with it”

he looked at you surprised

“I thought you were gonna start crying”

you giggled a bit because you were honestly scared as hell

“well you never got your food, so I can cook for you if you want”

you stood up “let’s cook together”

you were now cooking a good ass meal with a gang member

you two sat down to eat in the living room and watched tv while he explained his tattoos to you

then he spoke “are you still coming to watch Lori tomorrow?”

you nodded while eating your food

he was telling you to be careful and what to avoid and where to not go during certain hours of the day

you listened while you looked at him, still lowkey scared asf

“…and if you want…tomorrow morning, we can go get some coffee so that I can make this up to you? I still fell like an ass..” he asked as he shyly looked down

he just..asked you on a date? while BLUSHING??

“of..of course I want to go.” you said while smiling

that was the blossom of one of the wildest relationships you’ve every been in.

#christian yu scenarios #christian yu #dpr live #dpr scenarios #dpr #dpr we gang gang #gang!au #mafia au #mafia!au #khh scenarios

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jiminjoo · 7 years ago

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my holy vmin fic rec part.1

here you go, first part of my favorite vmin fics ٩(๑> ₃ <)۶♥ have fun♡♡

maybe in another universe by monsterplaza (aesthesiae)

Jimin wakes up four times, in four different parallel universes. Annoyingly (or thankfully?) enough, his ridiculous clown of a best friend and maybe the subject of his nighttime fantasies Kim Taehyung happens to be a fixture in Jimin’s life, every single damn time.

“4 different parallel universe but same amount of love for each other.”

finger cuffs by nonheather

taehyung falls in love every day but this time, he insists, it is real. but all of his friends are vehemently against the object of his latest affection.

"can you give me one?"

"a reason?" yoongi hums shortly. "you're sensitive. you fall for anyone in a matter of seconds. and he throws people away like used tampons. there's three."

“this such a nicely developed fic,i love the characterization of taehyung and jimin,it has such a nice humor and also nice amount of angst”

our sinking friendships (we drown them all) by skateboardsound

Like most bad decisions, it could be traced back to cheap alcohol—the kind with a taste that clung to your tongue too long and gave you a hangover before the high was over. And like most bad decisions, it had also seemed like a great idea at the time.

“i love it.just love it,it was such a nice read”

permanence by vminism

love left a permanent mark, in the form of a tattoo, scrawling itself upon the skin. jimin falls in love often, ever the romantic - until he finds someone he gets stuck on. taehyung? he's a little more careful with matters of the heart.

“you get a tattoo everytime you fall in love with someone ,usually in soulmate fics it’s like for one person but in this it was a good change that you can get a bunch of tattoos from different people. it’s sweet ,little bit cheesy but a nice read overall.”

everything feels like a dream (don't try to disappear) by kaythebest

"You know that thing that people do in movies, where they’re trying to get over someone so they completely cut them out of their life, and it’s really sad and they cry a lot and then it’s fine? I’m in the process of that.”

“it has so much cliches but i don’t mind because i’m a sucker for bestfrieds who is obviously in love :’(”

Jammed by minverse

The rational part of Jimin's brain screams at him to remember what his mother said about strangers and vans. But the rational part of his brain is no match for really bad whiskey and Kim Taehyung.

((au where Jimin gets stuck on the interstate in the middle of a blizzard and Taehyung lives in a van))

“a weird tae that lives in a van and a jimin who pays taxes meets”

check you out (you're beautiful) by ubixuitous

“You’ve literally been in the same university together for three years and you have like, two classes together this semester, I’m pretty sure he knows you,” Jungkook murmured, a poor attempt at pacifying Taehyung’s current state of despair. “Besides, you’re like, always staring these flaming holes into his face and being weird, I’m pretty sure he couldn’t ignore you even if he wanted to, hyung.”

Taehyung grabbed at the emptied plastic water bottle sitting on his nightstand and threw it at Jungkook, missing by a good five feet, watching as the bottle fell to the floor, rolling until it hit the foot of Jungkook’s bed. “I do not stare flaming holes into his face, I–” He paused, biting his lip, before huffing softly. “I simply admire him, that’s all. From a distance.”

“omg both of them are so awkward :D i died a little bit from their cuteness.”

morning glory by knth

Sundays are for cuddles. And morning sex, apparently.

“no explaination needed,summary says it all”

roll with it by conversehigh

“fake boyfriend, jiminnie. fake is the key word here.”

“fakedate au we all need”

the one thing that's real by syubnugget

Taehyung can hear Jimin's little snores, the soft snuffles that he always teases him about when they share a bed. He shakes his head as if he can physically knock the thought out of his own mind. Teased him. When they shared a bed.

They're not supposed to do things like that anymore.

“a very nice canon smut,it kinda left me sad after reading”

the invention of ordinary every day things by knth

Jimin just wants to get through the work day peacefully, not deal with hot customers with smiles like the goddamn sun.

“imagine tae and jimin playing house in ikea...yeah that’s some good shit”

relief by vminism

Post-shower bad decisions that are actually good decisions.

“i like fics that i can imagine actually happening,this is one of them”

Shooting Stars and Silver Moons by mucha

Yoongi and Jimin make a bet, Taehyung makes bad decisions.

(Or: "I'm kind of pissed you didn't choose me to fake date, I'm your best friend")

“kinda fakedate au,jealous taehyung is really cute”

game face on by stoplight (orphan_account)

Everybody else has always liked to speculate about their relationship. Taehyung and Jimin? They've always liked to prove people wrong.

“vmin looking back to times they had sex which is not vanilla at all.this is a nice fic that should be send the those people say that vmin is just brOtp 4life”

Common Good by chihiro

Jimin likes playing with fire.

“vmin public blowjob is something we need in our lives,am i right ?”

and when you think of me, am i the best you've ever had by causeitsred

Jimin and Taehyung had the perfect apartment.

That is, until they break up.

New Message - 1:15 AM by miniimin

Jimin was fully not expecting to wake up with four drunk sexts from the gorgeous boy in his Korean Lit lecture, but he did, and now he's fairly certain he's going to have to switch schools.

“this is really cute”

to be alone with you by knth

The last thing Taehyung expects is catching a dude jacking it in the backseat of his car. The last, last thing he expects is running into him again at work. But like he does with most things, he just goes for it.

“jimin and taehyung having awkward public sex :)”

552 by annafeu

Rival troublemakers Jimin and Taehyung try really fucking hard not to kill each other on a daily basis. But can Taehyung be held responsible for murdering that ass?

“i like my vmin cute sweet domestic fluffy shit and it’s opposite of that but i dont mind that much”

Getting started by dalliancee

“You didn’t possibly think I’d call it a night just by jerking you off, did you? Look at you, Jimin. Look at what you’re wearing.”

Jimin flushes immediately at the reminder as he bites down at his bottom lip, torn between squirming away from Taehyung’s persistent touch, or buckling at his hips into Taehyung’s hand that’s still fondling him through the lace panties that’s soiled with his cum.

“We’re just getting started, you know that right?”

“some nice smut”

sweet things are made of this by knth

Jimin tries doing something sexy for Valentine's Day. It works out as well as one expects.

“hilarious oh god i love vmin so much”

the truth runs wild by sesquipedalia

Falling in love with the Prince of Karugae was the worst mistake Taehyung ever made in his entire life.

“royalty au with prince jimin and guard tae it is a little bit cheesy but nice read overall i guess.”

constant by vminism

Taehyung's heart stops cold in his chest. He blinks his eyes wide because maybe he's dreamed about this moment, maybe more times than he's willing to admit, but he never thought it would happen. Not in his wildest dreams.

“soft canon vmin kisses is just what you need on a bad day”

if the world was ending (would you stay with me) by vminism

They're always too much and not enough - pushing the boundaries but not breaking them.

“late night deep talks b/w #bestfriendswhowishtheywereboyfriends”

sex sent me to the E.R. by euphoriae

Taehyung tries The Grapefruit Technique on Jimin. It does not end well.

or the time Jimin has to go to the E.R. after sexy time.

“it’s such a thing that taehyung would do :D”

#vmin #bts #bangtan #v #taehyung #jimin #vmin fic #vmin fic rec #vmin fanfic #vmin fanfic rec #vmin fanfiction #vmin rec #vmin recommendation #bts fic #bts fanfic #bangtan fic rec #bts fic rec #recs

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scenesplitterworld-blog · 7 years ago

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It’s Not About the Shape – It’s About the Lie (An investigation into why flat earth hip-hop may seem merely stupid, but might actually be dangerous too: Electric Bugaloo)

Author’s Disclaimer: I’m sure that, like most people, most flat earthers are fine. Most people who rap about the shape of the place we all live on are probably fine. I acknowledge that the two dudes I profile in this investigation are probably the ISIS of your conspiracy movement. If you come across this article, and you’re a regular John or Jane Q. Flat Earther, please understand that your willfully ignorant belief has some truly disgusting expressions and intellectual underpinnings. So, with quite a bit of conscious irony, if you are a “moderate” flat earth truther, I exhort you to denounce your radically anti-Semitic fringe, particularly Eric Dubay. It may be a shitty presumption on my part, but I just assume that even you, hypothetical, humdrum Dale or Erma P. Flat Earther, are the kind of person to constantly post to FacePage that “moderate Muslims” must unceasingly denounce Al-Qaeda. And if, havin’ read through this, you’re the kind of person who’ll accuse me of being a “SJW” because I think promoting Holocaust denial is hugely problematic, eat shit; die mad with stank breath. But, if you’re a hardcore ODD TV or Dubay boy, please come at me, I’ll gladly take whatever you consider lumps. All that said, let’s listen to some real fringe fuckin’ hip-hop, shall we?

I’ll bet most folks view people who believe the earth isn’t really round as nothing more than loons and larks. That’s how I started. Owing to a strange encounter I had with a feller at a show last winter, I had a picture of flat earth truthers as young, isolated, drunk, white dudes with dreadlocks wearing kneepads over their jeans saying gross things to pretty ginger gals. I was a little worried, but still mostly tickled, to discover that there’s a largish community of believers online. If you don’t get into the weeds of what belief in the flat earth entails, it’s easy to laugh it off as mere ignorant buffoonery, but, whoooooo boy, if you examine it closely, you’re in for one of the wildest, and surprisingly disturbing, rides of your life.

I stepped through the looking glass on accident, when I stumbled on this music video, “Cartoon Ball,” by ODD TV. At first, I clowned on it. Of course I did. Did you watch it? Christ. Dude’s shirt says “Never Sleep Again,” and he really looks like he ain’t slept because he’s in the early, still exciting days of a meth bender. I sent this video to friends and shared it on my timeline because I wanted to spread the chuckles. To be fair to ODD TV, I think he’s got legitimate talent. Not just on this track, but also throughout his catalogue, he’s got a catchy flow and his songs show a deft use of samples – for example, in the bluntly titled song, “Dear NASA, Why Are You Lying,” he takes the lyric “Space may be the final frontier, but it’s made in a Hollywood basement” from Red Hot Chili Pepper’s song “Californication,” and using that in a song about how the earth is actually not globe-shaped is, artistically, fairly dope. Not at all what the funky, cock-socked, SoCal, alt-rock, boys had in mind when they wrote the song, but that’s ODD TV’s genius. His video production, likewise, is slick. It’s much slicker than this other flat earther we’re gonna scrutinize in a sec, but one thing these guys share, which, I gotta say, is utterly derivative of almost every other conspiracy theorist with social media accounts, is referencing the Rowdy Roddy Piper flick, They Live. Guys. Give it a moratorium, right now, y’all have made it lazy.

Anyway, I got my giggles and moved on, right? Obviously not. After my mirth settled down, I found myself returning to “Cartoon Ball,” and for all my above praise, I wasn’t watching this weird shit again because I was real into the music. Nah, I think it was this lyric in particular: “God created the heavens and the earth / in a verse / but we’re livin’ in a Freemasonic Galaxy.” ODD TV doesn’t get into what he means by that, exactly, in this video – although, he gets into in in his oeuvre, bet your ass on that – because he’s focused mostly on rallying the viewer against NASA.

But, on repeat viewing, you know, I caught this brief WTF nugget – a what the fugget, if you will: “We follow rapists and murderers / liars, thieves, and sun worshipers / sayin’ we can’t see curvature / ‘cause we’re all too small.” It’s the sun worshippers part that’s the sore thumb, right? Well, get ready for that sore thumb’s equally sore counterpart when ODD TV raps that believers in a spherical planet are “Stuck in the material domain of Satan.”

Well, little ol’ me, Alice Donkey Boy Croix, was drawn further into the flat earth hip-hop scene by YouTube’s helpful recommendation. Oh, what a twisted Wonderland that turned out to be. But store those what the fuggets away for later use, Beloved Reader, they’ll crash back into pertinence again directly. Presently, we need to turn to how things got soooooo much more goddamned bonkers. The other cat I referenced briefly earlier, his name’s Eric Dubay, and he’s just about the whole rest of the haul of our investigation. So, settle in to peep this video, “Once You Go Flat.”

Holy. Steaming. Shit. Y’all. Good. God. Damn.

Right?

Sorry to spring that diarrhea spray of hippo shit at you without much warning, but I wanted you to be as utterly gob-smacked as I was when Holocaust denial enters into things…and continues to spiral out from there. And just in case THAT was somehow an aberration from his mean, I watched this one. If you watched the first one, you already know to brace yourself, but, I cannot really stress enough that he, whew, he doubles down.

So, let’s shelve the vegetarian polemic and uh…yeah…that was the most hardcore anti-Semitic thing I’ve ever experienced in musical form. Oh, you too? Neat. Look at us, Gentle Mentals, with all this shit in common!

So, that video left my jaw on the fuckin’ floor, and that’s when I went over to www.ericdubay.com. I can neither confirm nor deny that visiting this page puts you on any sort of NSA list, but if the NSA is keeping tabs (hello, special agent, how are ya), it maybe should focus some attention on the shit our boy Dubay’s proudly posted here. Red flag it if you ain’t already, you may thank me later. Imagine that! The federales thanking little ol’ me!

BTW: we’re “in country” now, so maybe get your tin-foil helmet on.

A few sick bars and a shocking affinity for the OG Nazis ain’t the only radical thing about our boy Dubay. He moves in circles so fringe that they consider Alex Jones to be part of the “controlled opposition.” Dubay’s even a truther against other flat earth truthers. He goes hard on The Flat Earth Society for being “controlled opposition,” by pointing out the idiocy of their theory for what is really going on with “gravity” on a flat earth, which is that the earth is like a pizza crust tossed continually upwards, so…things don’t really fall, they’re just kind of suspended until the ground catches up to them. Yeah. The idea of controlled opposition is that you get a shill to be a very vocal idiot in order to discredit the more “legitimate” conspiracy investigators who have come too close to the truth. But who controls the controlled opposition? Remember when I told you to remember ODD TV’s reference to the Freemasons? The Sun Worshipers? The Satanists? Dubay says it’s them. He says that both The Flat Earth Society and NASA are chock full of Masons, Masons who are behind these lies. He claims NASA agents – whatever those are – have murdered flat earth truthers to maintain their grip on this elaborate illusion. And, in a series of infographics, he ain’t shy in explicitly linking these nefarious Masons directly to, you saw it, the Jews. He’s one of these New World Order, Jew World Order types. I realized I tossed that off kinda casually – he’s just one of those types – but let me assure you, I don’t do it dismissively. Dubay compares the way this global Jewish cabal runs the world’s affairs to the orchestrated sturm und drang of televised professional wrestling.

So you gotta wonder why lying about the shape of the earth is so important to our crypto-kosher overlords. I sure as fuck needed to know the answer to that myself, and, like any conspiracy theorists before him, this is where Dubay stumbles somewhat. He’s got 200 proofs for the truth of the flat earth, but he’s less articulate as towards the damnable “why” of it all. As I’ve been able to understand of his position, Eric Dubay believes we’re indoctrinated with the spinning globe model of cosmology, because if the global elite of Freemasonic Zionists can brainwash everybody on such a fundamental level as the ground beneath our feet, they can deceive and control us in any other sinister way they fuck well feel like.

Y’all, I’m a great many things. I’m not an astrophysicist, so, to be honest, I’m not really interested in engaging with the specifics of these dudes’ arguments regarding round versus flat, because – you know the Family Guy throwaway joke where Peter’s at the Cineplex helpfully pointing out when somebody in the movie says the movie’s title – to quote Mr. Dubay himself, “It’s not about the shape; it’s about the lie.”

Before I get deeper into this shit – yeah, you thought you were down the rabbit-hole already – I want to point out that if you want to get all this from the horse’s mouth, the last twenty or so minutes of the two-hour FAQ video on his site is my source for all this. And since getting deeper into this gets pretty heavy, I think we need a bit of a levity break, so, I present a riff on a few screen grabs from that video.

First of all, it’s hard to tell – among the things I am is poor of vision – it looks like the letter G has been replaced by the number 6 in the phrase “Sacred Geometry. The Great Architect of the Universe. Gravity.” 666 is metal, but in this case you’re using it in a way that’s way too mental to be heaviest, fam. The Jews are Satanists too, remember? Luciferian nonsense is a thing Alex Jones dabbles in also. Second, Pythagoras was the leader of a cult that worshiped numbers. Pythagoras literally had a motherfucker 86ed because he felt that the concept of pi was blasphemous and threatening to him personally as a cult leader. The reason I’m scratching my head is that you might know pi as a pretty foundational concept in calculating the circumference of the globe. Globe. So, if he’s part of a cabal bent on convincing you the world is round, why would he be so violently opposed to that squiggly little Stonehenge-lookin’, 3.14 on to infinitum meanin’, mathematical concept that would support the whole damn thing? Anyway, here’s another.

I think this is supposed to be an Illuminati thing, but all it proves to me is that many people have fingers, and covering one eye is an easy way to look mysterious and sexy. It’s not like they’re all holding their hands the same way either. If a person were to try to argue that Eric Dubay himself is part of the controlled opposition, I think this could be evidence of “too dumb to be serious.”

But I wanna get serious again. Back to the investigation. I wanted to know what made this dude tick. Call yourselves Ishmael, because ol’ Dubay became my white whale, only in this version, I think we spear the shit out of Moby Dick. Truly, I believe that in the final portions of that long ass video I’ve been talking about, we see into his core – and unlike the molten core of the round earth we sheeple foolishly believe in – the heart of Eric Dubay is a frozen, Jotunheim-esque, barren fearscape.

Eric Dubay’s animating impulse is this: a deep, incomprehensible terror that humanity has no purpose in existence. He believes that subscription to the ideas of the Big Bang and subsequent evolution of life on earth via the mechanism of natural selection is subscription to a fundamentally nihilistic outlook; if humanity has no reason – as he sees reason – to be, the crisis in his soul would be too great to bear. And, sure, I get that. But he has not coped well with that adolescent existential angst. If the universe is a vast and vastly complicated place, it’s a scary place to be at the fringe of, so, to bridge the rift of this Lovecraftian horror inside himself, he’s put himself at the center of debunking a conspiracy to shroud our planet’s central location in the universe; our planet’s non-rotating position, which is to say a position of stability. Stability. Think about how comforting a concept that is. Purpose. Stability. Simplicity. These are not abnormal desires, but our boy Dubay’s gone about attaining ‘em in an abnormally toxic fashion. And he’s certainly doing his damnedest to create the fellowship he craves though all his media outreach. Can’t blame a feller for not wanting to feel alone…but when Holocaust denial is such a big part of your identity, it’s – to put it politely – extremely fuckin’ troublesome that you want others to believe as you do.

Dear reader, Gentle Mental, “Hypocrite Lecteur,”* if you’re wondering why the fuck any of this matters, this here’s that part of the article; buckle the fuck up. I believe that never before in human history has the battle against propaganda been more vital to the survival of the species. I’m typing this on Sunday, October 15, 2017, and the last headline I read was about Kim Jong threatening to bomb Guam if Trump don’t shut the fuck up about him on Twitter. We’ve got fucking lunatics at the trigger; we’ve got so much evidence that the Kremlin orchestrated the most effective “hearts and minds” campaign of the internet age; we’ve got tactics of division being employed by the most cynical and unhinged people of influence. So why should this flat earth shit matter? We’ve got all that more important shit I listed, right? Because flat earth’s your gateway conspiracy. Pretty soon, you’re hip-deep in the most virulent Protocols of the Elders of Zion bullshit.** Some conspiracy theorists have the…decency’s not the right word, so let’s start over. Some conspiracy theorists are crypto-anti-Semitic. OBVIOUSLY not our boy Dubay. Lemme quote from his song “Blood Rituals,” “You are blind, so fuck what you say / I’ll expose the flat earth and hail Hitler all day.” That’s so obviously dangerous, and the ideas of flat earth and anti-Semitism are so clearly linked, that we shouldn’t need to dwell, so I’ll move us along with this tossed out aside: fuck you, Richard Spencer, for ruining Tiki Torches, but thank you for being conveniently illustrative of the point that being a ringleader for Nazi sympathizers does in fact correlate to assholes in the street beating people and murdering them indiscriminately with cars.

*Editor’s Note: Goddamnit, DB! After I chewed your ass for quoting Yeats that last time, you have the nerve to bring this Baudelaire shit to the table? I want a picture of Spider Man on my desk TOMORROW!!

**Author’s Note: For an wonderfully illuminating examination of the history and influence of Protocols of the Elders of Zion, I highly recommend the July 27, 2017 episode of a podcast called Knowledge Fight. (http://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/size/25/?search=Protocols+of+the+elders+of+zion) Hosts Jordan and Dan do a thorough job of linking this fraudulent document DIRECTLY to Alex Jones’ framing of his favorite nemesis, the Globalist bogeymen, and even David Icke’s Reptilians. Do yourself a favor and dive into this podcast whole hog.

Provided that even one fewer gullible cocksucker buys into the dangerous worldviews of somebody like ODD TV, Alex Jones, or Eric Dubay, I will deem all efforts to expose their nonsense worthwhile, valid, and necessary. I don’t believe I’m virtue signaling when I speak out in order to shed light on hucksters’ efforts to spread dangerous racial, religious, or national divisions. It isn’t trivial to examine how those divisions may be spread insidiously as the necessary expression of these ideas; symptoms of the cancer, boils on the ass of the corpus scientia. Alex Jones is right about at least one thing: we are fighting an info war. He’s on the wrong side of it, to be sure, but it’s the same sort of info war Mike Pence fought in when he performed his indignant pageant at the ball game. And I don’t think that in speaking against any of this nonsense I’m beating a dead horse. And I believe that speech is action. If I reiterate a point, it is at least my humble intention to bring new nuance. I believe that the one person who was teetering on the fence but saw the truth of these bonkers narratives could be the one person who might have otherwise been the next to take a gun to something like a DC pizza joint to find out if interdimensional, shape shifting, child-molesting, psychic vampires run the government. Or do something so much more tragic in the name of bringing down whatever conspiracy it is they’ve been taken in by.

This’s the rock I reckon I’ll die on, should anybody respectfully disagree. Thank you for your time, Gentle Mentals, friends, fiends, and foes alike. It’s time to pray.

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